TOUR DIARY 30 – 26th May 27, 2011 Las Vegas – Ka – It’s raining … indoors and how to avoid being accosted!!

TOUR DIARY 30 – 26^th May 27, 2011 Las Vegas – Ka – It’s raining … indoors and how to avoid being accosted!!

We love Las Vegas.  I know it is not everyone’s cup of tea being brash, hot, noisy and O.T.T.  But we just love it.  We were not able to get into my favourite Hotel of all time, The Bellagio as it was full up but Steve, as always, did a great research job and got us into Planet Hollywood just opposite the Bellagio so I could still see my beloved fountains.  One of my great joys in life.  I am a very simple bod  and many simple things please me enormously!

Our intention was to rest, as it had been a hard week for Steve and to go to see a few shows as the best shows in the world are here in the magnificent hotels.  However, even with the price-cut from  the half-price ticket booth we could only manage one show on our budget.  The tickets were $120.00  each, which I think is a great shame as there were many empty seats.  If they bought down the prices then more people could afford to go.

So with only one show to be seen, it had to be …KA

This is without doubt the best Cirque De Soleil show ever created.  To date now I have seen most of them, only a few yet to see.

But KA  has to be seen in Las Vegas as there isn’t another venue that I know of in the world which can contain the scope of this incredible spectacle.

It combines a wonderful story line of a royal brother and sister being separated and finding each other finally after many adventures and lucky escapes.  There is a coming of age and a love story entwined.

The theatre itself is so huge and is an amazing construction of balconies and metal structures in gold and bronzes, which makes it look part of the whole set design and maybe it was.  Perhaps the theatre was built for KA.  As the show is about to start trapeze artists.. the baddies are jumping off the balconies out over the audience and then falling back down to balconies a dozens of feet below.. all on wires which you can’t see very well, so it just looks like they are defying gravity.

The baddies have half their faces painted black, which looks very ominous and the bodies are all highly decorated with tattooing a bit like the Maoris of New Zealand.  The mastery of the make-up and costumes alone, for these shows is breath taking.

The first act   is an attack which kills the children’s parents and separated them from each other and it had flaming arrows flying across the stage… Health and Safety in England would be having a fit, and is probably one of the reasons it could never be staged in England!  There would be so many things they would tell them they couldn’t do!!

Then they escape to a huge ship which tosses and turns so violently it goes down and sinks with the crew being far flung – huge distances out into the air and down into the void of below stage where I sincerely hoped there was a net to catch them as the drop was over 50 odd feet.  The second scene then has the backdrop stage which has to be at least 100 foot high as an ocean with people falling through the depths of the sea …so simple but so effective., all done with bubbles imprinted on the backdrop and the drowning people on wires, again almost invisible..

The Chief Baddie was a long haired magician who kept tossing his mane to one side  (which Steve finds very vexing as he used to be able to do that)  and as with all of the performers he had  a superb body  and such athleticism.

He coveted a young girl who eventually falls in love with the young Royal lad.

There are vertical battles on the 100 foot back wall which have to be seen to be believed and which leave you holding your breath so many times in fear for their safety as they fall from the top of this vertical wall and then climb back up again.

After many adventures and with the story line of the Magician trying to capture the KA of these people and using alchemy to transmute it into something else,, the finale of the show ends with the most spectacular stunt on two moving wheels.  These two wheels are huge and are part of the contraption the Magician has constructed to make the alchemy work.  If you imagine a  huge wooden figure of 8, which is rotating around but with the two circles of the 8 also rotating at the same time.. with 2 athletes running around inside the wheels  like a mousewheel.  Their movement is what makes the wheels turn. This is itself is so stunning as they throw themselves at the opposite side of the wheel to turn it, but then suddenly one of them is outside the wheel!!

He is somehow outside of this wheel, which is turning inside an 8 which is also turning over and over.  As I have seen the show before I was watching carefully to see if I could see how he did it but one minute he was inside and then he was outside the wheel.

You just about get your head around this and pray he doesn’t fall off as he has no protection and these wheels are spinning so fast.. when he then starts to jump up in the air, on the spinning wheel, on the spinning 8 and then… he starts to skip and crack a whip at the same time.  His feet are coming up about 2 – 3 feet above all this spinning and your brain is just sitting there saying.. ‘I know I am watching this, but I also know that this is not possible to do”  I’m sure I didn’t breathe for the whole of the performance and the skill and balance of the two artists must probably be the best in the world.

When the show was over Steve and I found it hard to talk for a while we were so moved and whilst it was playing I was thinking… ‘This show has to be on everyone’s bucket list… and if you only have one thing on your list to do before you die… then make it KA in Las Vegas.

There are some downsides to Vegas I know, one of them being the packs of Mexican men who are snapping packs of cards constantly at you as you walk down the road, which contain the images of girls with the message ‘We can have a girl to your room in 20 minutes’ Now I don’t mind at all what men get up to in Las Vegas and I’m sure a lot of them go for these easy adventures, but the thing is that Steve and I always walk along hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm and they try to surreptitiously  give him a card without my seeing, which of course I always do. 

What do they think?  That he will be able to get rid of me in the Hotel for an hour or two whilst he dials up for one of these girls?  I find it amusing but also insulting.  These cards end up thrown on the sidewalk, which is also not pleasant.

I think the L.V. police should do something about them.

Anyway Steve has a way of dealing with it now, which he has only just shared with me.

When we have been talking about how I could protect myself from the people who come up and monopolise my time and stop me from talking to people I would really enjoy chatting to, he says I should put some protection over myself.  Now in my understanding that would be to construct a green metaphysical pyramid over myself.  But he said that it is not strong enough and I should construct one like he does.  When I asked him what colour it is.. he said  ‘it isn’t a colour it’s made of barbed wire!!”  I obviously couldn’t stop laughing at this image, but it works for him and now I can’t get that image out of my mind also.  I am going to give it a try!!  So the card snappers seem to veer towards him and then veer away sharply.  I just thought my ferocious glare… (well, the most ferocious I am capable of)  was what was doing it, but it was his barbed wire fence…

Our Hotel was so exquisite as they all are, such enormous attention to detail and luxury with one whole wall being window overlooking the strip.  It was hard to approach the window initially as it is on the 21^st floor and it just felt like you would fall out but I got used to it and at night it had a wonderful view of the airstrip and all the lights of the city out the back .. I just love Neon lights… not sure why but then I love all shiny and glittering things…

Inside our Hotel was a Fountain display, which went off every hour and cost millions.  It was good but nowhere near as good as the Bellagio fountains. We also had an internal storm.  The ceilings of the mile long indoor shopping area are all painted with clouds to make it look like you are outside and then there were loud crashes and lights flashing and dark lights to replicate a storm and then it rains…. Inside…. Brilliant….

I hope I never grow up and get tired of things like this.

Another thing to not be missed if you can ever get to Las Vegas is the reception area of the Bellagio.  It is a truly massive space and the entire ceiling is covered in Murano Glass Flower petals of all different colours.  Each one is about 2 – 3 foot in size and all different size and shapes and just hangs from the ceiling.  It is my favourite sculpture of all time next to The Pieta and David by Michelangelo.

They affect me in different ways and for different reasons… David because he is so beautiful,  The Pieta because of the love shown by a mother for her dead child – Jesus.. and the ceiling of the Bellagio because of the incredible sense of healing and balance you feel being under these wonderful  colours and undulating shapes.

Artists are so amazing and we are so blessed to continually have new people creating things to move our hearts in these ways…

Bellagio also has the most gorgeous horticultural section at the back of the Hotel which changes every few months.  Just carpets and carpets of beautiful flowers in all different shades and massive structures again made out of flowers and a huge painting like a Van Gogh which again was made entirely of flowers. So clever and such an assault on all the senses…  It also has a chocolate fountain in a sandwich shop which just pours from the ceiling over multiple shell-like containers to the floor and back up again.   The space is  about 10 foot  square and liquid chocolate pouring over probably 20 different shells…it’s magical and I am only glad I am not a chocoholic as it must be purgatory for them, they must want to just dive in… or just stand under one of the streams with their mouths open… It smelled divine…

It was time to leave Las Vegas and I think if only Nicholas Cage had stopped drinking in the film for which he won the Oscar… he could have had such a good time!

On to Alamo and a two-day conference and a Sky watch near the notorious Area 51 secret base.

Lots of love

Annie

Tour Diary 29 - 20.5.11. The Magic Castle – Dark movies - Visiting with Toni – Hollywood – and a meeting with Dave

Tour Diary 29  - 20.5.11.  The Magic Castle – Dark movies - Visiting with Toni – Hollywood – and a  meeting with Dave

Steve has four talks to do in a week and in between times we have our lovely friend Toni come to see us, all the way from Dallas.  She is so brilliant to be with.. very funny, full of life and the most ardent PR marketing person for Steve’s book.  She feels so passionately about how important the book is that every time I am with her (and no matter what the place we visit), we come away with those people knowing that I am married to a ‘celebrity’ who is doing this amazing book tour here and whose message is so important for humanity!!  So I get my hand shaken and I get asked to come back soon. 

The last two venues where this happened were a cup cake shop and the ticket booth at the cinema!

Don’t ask me how she manages to get the plug in, but she does…. every time.  It was Toni who spoke with our waiter Tyson about Steve and we ended up giving him a book, which, by the way, he has emailed to say he is so enjoying!

Toni loves all the same things as me and is a Multi/Faceted therapist too who has followed a very similar path.  At the moment she is studying some really advanced nutrition so we have lots to talk about with my passion for nutrition for children, and my anti-vaccines stance..

She also loves the movies so we went to one of the most famous Hollywood cinemas with her daughter and then she and I went on our own to see a 3D movie – ‘Priest’ – a vampire movie.  Toni, like me, is not affected by ‘dark films’ as we seem to be able to  keep a separation between fiction and reality.

We were given a new type of really heavy 3D glasses, which were also very dark.  I have to wear them over my own glasses otherwise I can’t see properly.  But I found the whole film.. the story as well as the actual  shooting of the film very dark.. as did Toni and a few times I lifted both my glasses and could see that some of the film was not in 3D.  We were told afterwards that they filmed it as a normal film and then they transferred it to 3D.  So every now and again when the darkness overwhelmed me, I lifted both glasses to watch the normal parts and then put them both back on for the 3D parts.

It wasn’t until the end of the film and I took off both pairs of glasses that I found out why it had been so dark. I was wearing my prescription sunglasses, which are very brown in lens, to say the least!!

Toni has a very gleeful giggle, which she employed for quite a while once I explained to her!

Toni’s lovely daughter who had managed to get us into the Magic Castle in L.A.  Our big night in Hollywood. Entry to this amazing place is by invitation and membership only.  It is a beautiful house with very elegant and extraordinary exterior and an even more unusual interior.  The whole theme of the night is Magic and after  having  an amazing meal, (one of the best we have had since we have been here, saving the lovely food in Austin).. you then  just wander all over the house and find Magicians and Magic Shows going on all over the place.  We sat down with an older man, who was just shuffling a deck of cards.  He was tucked away in a little corner.

He showed us quite a few cards tricks which we could not fathom at all how he was doing it, they really were so extraordinary and when he asked for someone to shuffle the cards Steve said that I should do it as I had been a croupier at the London Playboy club for many years. The Magician then very quietly pulled from his wallet his London Playboy Club Gold Membership key which he has had in his wallet since the club opened in 1965 I think it was… Amazing… He has carried it around with him for nearly 50 years.

But what was more amazing was when we asked how he did some of the tricks he spoke about having been a gambler for  many years and making his money from gambling because he had a photographic memory. 

He asked if we would like to this demonstrated and of course we did.

He spread the cards …talking all the while and then picked them up immediately.  He then asked each one of us to say a card… 10 of diamonds for example and then within a few  seconds he said… 30 cards in from the left.  He counted out 30 cards and there it was.

He did it for each one of us and then he did the whole thing again.  8 cards pulled out of a remembered pack,. …remembered whilst he was having a conversation and hardly glancing at them.  We shared a few memories of the old days at Playboy and he let me shuffle the cards a few times..

We could have sat with him all night but we had to let others have a sit with him and see how he worked so we moved on.

At our dinner table – Toni who chats with everyone and is so kind and friendly - asked our waiter how long he had been working at the Castle and he replied that he was a ‘Newbie’ most of the other people had been there much longer than him….  He said he had been there for 21 years!!  I suppose that was indicative of what a wonderful atmosphere it was to work in and what fun everyone was having…

We were there for about 4 hours in all and it was truly a ‘magical’ evening.  We wouldn’t have even known about it without Toni.  I feel on a trip like this it is so important to try to get people who know about  the places you visit, to give you inside information of places to go see.

Toni’s daughter is at University in Hollywood and lives in an apartment, which used to belong to Clark Gable and Elizabeth Taylor used to live next door.  But I expect having a house that a star once lived in, must be quite a normal thing for Hollywood.

Steve took a bit of time to himself to try to catch up with bookings and so we 3 gals went up into the Hollywood hills so that I could see the Hollywood sign.  What is so tragic is that it is in one of the tallest hills and yet the phone companies have chosen to put all their antennae just above it.  There are so many hills in L.A as there are so many ravines!!  So couldn’t they have put their masts up on another one and left this iconic hill to itself I ask!  There is such a blight on the landscape now as all the tallest hills have antennae on them.  The price we pay for our mobile phone technology.

  

We went up through Griffiths Park and to the Observatory at the top and from there it was a spectacular view and the Hollywood sign was off in the distance.  Although Toni’s daughter usually walked through the park up to the top of the hill she did not know who Griffiths was.  The park was so spectacularly beautiful that I imagined he must have been a wonderful philanthropist.

When Toni and I were in the cinema it had a fantastic collection of film books in the foyer and the first one I picked up fell open at a page all about Griffith Park and Griffiths himself.  He was a mining millionaire who ended up taking !a dislike to his wife and shot her in her left eye to try to kill her!  He booked himself a good lawyer and spent loads of money and got off with only one year in prison.  So there went my lovely thoughts about this man who had created such a wonderful space for people to enjoy!!  It shows what you can get away with if you have enough money.. I think his wife survived somehow and I wondered how she felt about such a paltry sentence.

Three of the talks that Steve did in L.A. went really well (as can be seen by the organisers comments which I have added at the end)… the last one to do was in Ventura. We did not like Ventura very much, our Hotel was by the fishing harbour and there was a terrible smell from the fishing boats at night. Also it was really quiet.

However, the talk had been really well publicised and Steve was looking forward to doing it.  The organiser was a lady who was also was a multi-faceted Therapist… mainly Yoga and Healing and was now using Tuning Forks to add a different element to her work, - Sound Vibration - so we had a lot to talk about and the venue was lovely.. Painted with all the colours of our home on the walls and lots of interesting artifacts all around the place. 

But… only 5 people turned up!

Zan the organizer said that the meeting she had tried to hold the month before, the speaker had made a mistake in his diary and did not turn up, so she thought this might have impacted on her meeting for Steve. 

She was very disappointed as was Steve of course but he went ahead and gave a good talk and was able to ask each person why they were there.  One man was a UFO reporter, whose name was well known to me so I thought maybe the reason for us being there was for an article from him.  But there was an old man also, who was there with his grandson and he spoke to Steve when he bought a book and he told him that members of his family had been in contact with the Greys since the end of the NINETEENTH century.. 1895.  And the contact continues in his family today.  So this was the oldest case we had ever heard about.  So I was thinking maybe this meeting was so that we could meet this old man….

Steve was very low after the session and wondered what on earth we were there for if it was so badly turned out.  I made him drive to the coast and we took a lovely walk along an original old wooden pier and were able to watch the wonderful pelicans diving a few feet from our heads into a shoal of fish, which was either side of the pier.  Steve always picks up when he is in nature for a little while…

When we got to the hotel I said I wanted a drink and although Steve wanted to just get up into the room he got me one and got talking with an older man at the bar.

The man told Steve that he had a wonderful old English sports car.. an Austin Healey which I think is 60 odd years old this year and he took Steve outside to have a look at it.

He then came and sat down at our sofa and continued to talk to us.  I felt that there was something strange happening here, but was not sure what it was.. as the talk was all of old vintage English cars, (of which I am a bit of an expert having lived with a fanatical car man in my first marriage)

The he spoke about the death of his beloved wife the year before from cancer, and got out photos of her and she was beautiful and also a good few years younger than him and it was five years she had left after her diagnosis.  He said that as soon as she was diagnosed he quit his company and said to her that whatever she wanted to do, he was at her disposal.  So I was thinking.. ‘Is this what this is about? ..bereavement or choosing to live the life you want to?’  He then said that he was a writer and here Steve nudged me in the ribs, which meant he did not want me to say that so was Steve and I could feel that he really wanted to get away and up to the room. Dave, the man continued to say that one of his passions for life was with flowers and plants and so he took me outside to look at some spectacular plants, which I had been admiring but whose names I did not know.  We shared a lovely few minutes talking about our passion for plants and the planet.

When we came back in, Steve was up and ready to go and then Dave said…”Do you like poetry?

Because I have this little site… here let me give you a card… it’s only a little site, but what I do is I read books and poetry and ones that I really like, or ones that I feel my readers would like I post on this site.. Take a look at it when you get time… I feel it’s all about the Dance… the dance of life….’

These are Steve’s closing words at the end of his talks. 

I asked Dave how many people were there on his site?…

“Oh, not many really, I think at the last count, it had over 35,000 hits… It’s just a little thing I do, I want to spread the word of how connected we all are and how special the planet and all its people are…..Anyway, it has been so lovely talking to you and thank you for making my evening by being kind and patient with an old man, the world can be a lonely place…”

He walked away and I frantically said to Steve that he had to go get a book for him out of the car and give it to him to read and include on his site.

I caught up with Dave at the lift and he was going to our floor so I asked him what number room he was in…

Steve went out and got a book and took it to his door and said… “You might like to read this”.. Dave was really pleased and thanked him.

And I believe that was what we were doing in Ventura.

We were supposed to meet up with Dave.  I could have sat talking with him all night…

There are some very unusual twists in this tour….

Moving on to Vegas Baby!!

(I don’t know why you have to say Vegas Baby but he-who-knows-everything- says that’s what you have to say… another nice little rest and a catch up with the world of the neon lights… frantic music and the best shows in the world)

Lots of love

Annie

Magic Castle Website and You Tube…

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hwVy_2eOfsE#t=78

I just love the names out here..  Here’s two great ones….

Wookook the Makoli

Ghenghis Cohen – Pawn brokers

More Feedback…

Steven, 

What a spectacular evening! Your presentation was over the top in brilliance and you really connected with the audience. All in all, the evening was a tremendous success, thanks to you and Annie. Best of luck to you tonight and in your travels. I will see you out there soon. Thanks again!

LA Mufon

Steven and Annie,

Thanks for coming to speak to our So-Cal MUFON groups. We had a great time during your visit. I was impressed that you were able to keep our audience enthralled with your voice alone-without the use ofpictures & music in your presentation. You are both enjoyable to talk with and have a lot to share. I think you are doing great work sharing a positive message about the ET presence, in a sea of not-so-positivevoices out there.

I hope the rest of your trip goes well.

Travel safe and keep in touch,

MUFON OC

Tour Diary 28 – Tues 17th May – T.V appearance – San Diego Sea World -

Tour Diary 28 – Tues 17^th May – T.V appearance – San Diego Sea World -

Steve was asked to appear on breakfast T.V here in San Diego, which he was a bit apprehensive about, although he feels totally able to deal with any kind of personal attack now , but it was a in fact a really good experience.

The woman who interviewed Steve had enormous respect for both the subject and Steve himself and as they had asked me to come with him into the ‘green room’ to watch the filming, she introduced herself to me also.  As she did I thought… ‘Ah good, I can see kindness and spirituality in those eyes, he will be O.K. with her’

After the recorded clip she immediately said she wanted to ask me how it had been for me, living with the events of Steve’s life?  I told her how it had been and then she went on to say that she was currently doing an M.A in Spiritual Psychology and had been working with all sorts of very interesting subjects of which, she found ET contact to be just another element of our life!  Brilliant!

It was weird being in the ‘Green Room’ to see that all the backdrops, which were appearing on the TV were not actually there.  The man who was on before Steve, had bought in a huge amount of recording equipment and was making the most amazing sounds with just waving his hands over some sort of board, as well as using a Moog synthesizer.  In the background however on the TV it looked like he was in outer space.  They asked if he could do some ‘Woo Woo’/Space music to cue Steve in but Steve declined, thank goodness.  What was good was that the man that asked if they could do that took no umbrage at Steve’s refusal, only said that he was glad he asked and had not gone ahead without Steve’s permission.

We got there at 8 a.m. and the show was due to air at 9 and all was live.  What was brilliant was all the other acts who shared the dressing room with us. This morning T.V show has an eclectic spectrum of what is going on in the area and it was a wonderfully varied cross section.

There was a Johnnie Depp look-alike – who had a fake – Keith Richards/Johnnie Depp/English/cockney accent. 

(Must have been because the new Pirates film is about to come out)

2 Grey hounds and a mixed-breed dog looking for homes.

An artist who had Jackson Pollack trousers on and when I watched him making a picture I could see why.  He leapt about all over the place throwing paint at a canvas which transformed into a picture of the Statue of Liberty’s head.. such talent!

The Moog synthesizer man.

Another wonderful artist, whose work was being used to drive a campaign to keep the beaches of San Diego clean.  I luckily had a good chance to chat with him about what pollution was going on and what they were trying to do about it.  As I suspected so much is the plastic problem.  He said he had just come back from a holiday snorkeling in Indonesia and where he went out onto reefs the plastic pollution was metres thick and the sea life was really struggling to exist in the usual way…What are we doing to our sea life? 

We spoke about my campaigning to have supermarkets give us the opportunity to take in our own containers for food and ‘fill-up’ at counters for whatever the food or cleaning substance is.. so that we can do away with all our plastic containers.  He said that he thought it was a great idea, which some countries are trying to introduce… Not quick enough said I.  I could have spoken with him for hours…

And then …. 12 tall and extremely skinny models – modelling bikini swimwear, which I have to say was almost non-existent.  It was two tiny circles and one band aid strip…in pretty colours and sequined with crystal beads..

One had arrived in the swimwear so that must have woken up much of the male San Diego population on her journey in!!

I was so glad I was seated, as I would have disappeared standing.  Steve was underwhelmed as he doesn’t find skinny women at all attractive and he could not believe what poor skin they had.  An effect I feel of a diet very lacking in any sort of nutriment…  They were like a flock of twittering birds but were all very sweet and caring of each other.

They were lovely girls , and it was great to watch them all preening and forcing their poor toes into the Christian Laboutin – 4 + 1/2” heels complete with 2” platform soles.  Soooooooo glad I no longer have to wear shoes like that.  It so reminded me of my days at Playboy and the dread we used to have of ‘O.K now I have to get my feet into those shoes…’ especially once they introduced these 4+1/2”  To stand around all night on those was crippling.  You can bet if the male dealers or Inspectors had been made to wear them that they would have had us in Hush Puppies in no time.  However, Hush puppies and a Bunny costume does not somehow look at all appealing.

It was a lovely experience and we only had to wait for 10 minutes at the end of the show… (Steve was on last), and they gave Steve a copy of the show which we hope he can soon put onto his You Tube site as people are already sending him E mails asking for that to be done.

We then went straight from there to the home of a Mufon Researcher that we had met at Steve’s talk the day before, who wanted to do a recording with him to put out on her You Tube site.  She also wants to have him do a Radio session with him, Internet Talk Radio is really big here in the States and Steve is getting lots of requests to take part with different people.

We then left late and guess what!!.. ended up in the rush hour traffic of L.A.  However as there were two of us we didn’t have to kidnap anyone to sail through in the Car pool lane and Steve was once again in 7^th heaven as he just passed all the stationery traffic trying to circumnavigate L.A.  We arrived at our Hotel and felt that it had been a very productive day.  With a talk arranged for tonight and tomorrow it is quite a lot to get in and also we have the added joy of having our friend Toni fly in from Dallas just to be with us and her daughter and spent the next few days with us.  Sounds simple but for us in England it is like someone who lives in the South of Spain saying ‘ Oh I’ll pop in to see you in London if you are going to be there.’  We sooo appreciate the time and care she is taking to come see us again.

Her daughter whom we met tonight (another amazingly beautiful young girl who has such vibrant personality)… has arranged a very special evening for us in L.A.  at the Magic Castle.  It is very hard to get into, members only costing hundreds of dollars and you have to wear evening clothes, which Steve does not have with him. 

So Toni has bought them with her, borrowed from her lovely husband Jon, and Steve has said that he has ‘sensed’ that these clothes want to live with him, Steve.  The fact that the jacket borrowed is the most exquisite soft leather I have ever felt might have had something to do with it…  There is also a borrowed tie and a gift of a lovely shirt for Steve.  I still cannot get used to the incredible kindness and generosity of heart of the American people.  It is not one-offs.  In every walk of life, especially in the hospitality section of their society these people just exude kindness and care and so I get very defensive at home in England when I get told that Americans are… ….whatever labels get thrown at them… I always respond.. ‘don’t link these people with their governments or the policies of their governments… there is no connection. The ordinary man in the street is loving caring and kind.. especially so’  We usually follow on from American trends, but we British lag far behind in this element of care and ‘interest in all Beings’ which the Americans exhibit….  I only wish that the world could experience the true Americans and not the Media Americans…. Everyone we have ever spoken to in America is totally against the policies of their government and I had such an interesting talk last night with the Mufon director talking about how this is the theme of Steve’s book, that it is now time for us to start saying.. ‘No, this is totally unacceptable and we are not going to go along with what you tell us you are going to do.’  He said he had never heard such inspirational words as Steve’s on this theme.

So many people, again, came up to the organisers and said that Steve was the best talk they had ever heard at a Mufon meeting.

These were two talks he did in a row here at L.A.  By the time Sunday is over he would have done 4 in one week.  Quite a feat….

Again so many Experiencers are coming up to both of us and saying how much it means to have people like us here, talking and being available to help them come to terms with what it means to be out of synch with the rest of the world because of this strange life with contact with exotic Beings is happening for them or their families.  I was able also to catch up with a dear friend of mine Barbara Lamb, who is a brilliant researcher and the foremost expert on Crop Circles.  She will be presenting at the Yearly Mufon Symposium in LA when we are due to be in Rhode Island for the yearly gathering.  So we wouldn’t have seen her there.  She said that she has been talking about Steve’s experiences in her own presentations because of how firstly how unusual they are but  also because there are third party witnesses.

Sea World

What can I say about all the wonderful creatures in this place.?  It is again that love/hate thing.  I just love to be so close to them especially the Killer Whales and the dolphins… but I am sad they are captive.

But the fun was had by me, ….or no wait.. it was Steve having the fun being able to say… ‘I Told You So’ over and over.

Why was this… well….

I wanted to go on the rapids ride.

There was a sign saying you would get wet.  But I watched people coming off and it appeared that they got wet right at the end when they went under two spouting water jets.  So I worked out that if we put my poncho over our heads at this point it would take the water and we would keep dry.  Steve disagreed and so refused to come on it with me.

I sat with 4 adults and a delightful little girl who kept gleefully smiling at me.  As I was about to sit down I was a bit peeved to see a little tiny patch of water on the seat as I thought.. “I will end up with a little wet patch on my trousers”.. so I wiped it off with a tissue.

You have to keep this image in your mind, me trying to ensure I did not get a tiny patch of water on my shorts.

So we started off.. went over the first rapid, which I was facing and a wall of water came over the side, all over me and into the bottom of the boat and our feet were under a foot of water.  Arrghh!!  I put my dripping feet up on the middle bar thinking they might drain off but as we continued the water kept coming in over each rapid.  But at least, I was thinking,  my hair was dry even if I was drenched from head to toe, that is until we went under the waterfall…..

What can I say… I’m sure you can get the picture…

I wish I had the camera for Steve’s face as I got out of the boat, literally with water coming out of the bottom turn-ups of my shorts and my hair dripping.

Ever mindful of taking loads of money off you… ($12.00 to park .. $140.00 for tickets!)  Sea World puts a drying cubicle just at the exit of this ride.  For $5.00 you can blow hot air up your jumper to try to dry out.  Steve came in to try to help me, but I was so wet it would have taken about 10 goes to get dry.

So as well as getting a water bashing.. I got an ear bashing  and no amount of trying to explain the unfairness of hitting us with a waterfall was going to change his mind that it had been a silly notion… I spent a miserable rest of the day, trying to dry out in the hot sun, which made me not careful enough with sun exposure and consequently I burnt my shoulders.

One day I will grow up and not want to do the rides…. One day……

Much love

Annie

xx

Tour Diary 27

Tour Diary – 27 – Sat 14^th May …San Diego… Ken and Barbies home.. Topanga Canyon …

On the way down here to San Diego where we are currently staying until Steve does his talk on Sunday, we passed the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.

Steve had wanted to stay here but the rooms were so expensive that it was out of the question… Thank Goodness!!

There are over 100 unique rooms each with a ‘wild barrage of fantasy motifs’ given names like ‘Just Heaven and Love Nest.. Honeymoon suites obviously but also the Cave Man rooms complete with fake zebra skins everywhere.

When we arrived it was Mothers Day in America so really busy and the outside looked like Ken and Barbie’s L.A home in the suburbs but worse… I think the best way I could describe it would be for you to imagine a huge pink and white cake from those terrible cake shops where you know that there is not a single real ingredient contained within the said  

Steve was so put off that he wouldn’t even go inside to have a little look around so I ventured forth by myself with camera.  Inside was a nightmare of “kitsch on mescaline” would probably be the best way to describe it.  Probably over a million little fairy lights and all the waitresses for some reason were dressed up as Heidi…. It was so busy with Mums being taken out for dinner on their special day, so it was overwhelming.  I got the feeling though that it would be like this every Sunday.

I didn’t get a chance to see in any of the rooms – nor to my great chagrin – into the men’s loos where apparently a waterfall filled up the urinal.  Steve wouldn’t go in and take a picture for me, he just wanted to make a quick escape.  So not everything is as appealing as the guidebooks would have you believe. 

Three more restroom stories. 

(I truly believe I might be able to write a book about restrooms when I get home.)

I’m realizing now that when I get back to Steve after having taken a ‘toilet break’ because I am grinning so much with a new story to tell, he has taken to groaning a lot and putting his head down on the table.  If he starts to bang it I will have to give up telling him my toilet tales.

Anyway, the first happened in Topanga Canyon, which is so beautiful and is situated just before the huge urban sprawl which is Los Angeles.  Topanga is home to over 5,000 old hippies from the 60’s (or so the guide book says – I only saw a few here and there).. and Neil Young recorded After the Gold Rush a favourite album of mine, here in his Topanga home.  Woodie Guthrie – Bob Dylan’s musical mentor – used to live here too.

The most interesting building, which was closed so we couldn’t go in unfortunately, was donated by Grandpa of the Walton’s series.  It used to be his home but now is a 300-seat open air theatre space called the Theatricum Botanicum.  I just love that name, it rolls off the tongue.

It was quite a drive up to get up to the middle of Topanga where the little enclave of people and artistic shops were and was a similar journey to the one we undertook to get past the landslide at Big Sur.  Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.  Then when we arrived mid way we found the cutest little enclave of shops and restaurants, which reminded us of Woodstock in Upper New York State.  So trendy and buzzing.  As we were hoping to try to get past Los Angeles without having to stop (and by this time we were nearing the rush hour of Los Angeles one of the worst road situations in the world)… I said I would just take a quick break and then we could go on.  There didn’t appear to be any restrooms in the café we were in and the owner told me that was because they were out the door … along the street … around the back… and to go in I would need this…

A huge tray like the ones you would get 24 hot cross buns on and a key attached.  The tray was obviously to stop people from going off with the key but when you come out of the café door with it, I’m sure many people were pointing and sniggering and saying… ‘We know where you’re going!!’.. This was proved to me because when I returned and was going to give the tray + key back to the café owner a woman accosted me and said…”Aha.. so you have it… I will take that please”

How quirky….

So that was toilet story number one.

The next toilet was in another little town on the way and in this case there were only two cubicles.  One was normal but the other one was so big that I was completely lost in there.  It was at least 3 times the size of my bathroom at home.  I took to thinking as I tinkled, (which I often do) of all the things you could do in a toilet of that size and I came up with Me – Steve.. Tom and Candace .. doing a bit of our two–step dancing – of which we are now adepts….complete with our hats.  I don’t think we would have bumped into each other.  I know it was probably for disabled people in wheelchairs but I think they should have put up a sign saying “Let your Carer know that you might be a long time, as it will take a while to wheel yourself to the back of the toilet”

The 3^rd and best, was last nights one in Old Town San Diego in an Italian restaurant reputed to be quite famous.  I admired the décor of individual paintings on the wall of the restroom but as I sat down I was gleefully amazed to see that there was a foot stool in the toilet with me ..in the corner.

So of course, there  I was trying to work out how to put my feet up on a foot stool whilst doing a tinkle.

I couldn’t do it, not without falling over and so I just wondered who decided that a footstool would be a good idea to put in a Loo?

Steve did laugh a little bit as he was groaning and asked if I find any other wonderful toilet anomalies I just keep them for my diary.  Such a spoil sport I’m having such fun with them….

We had totally mis-timed our attempt to get past Los Angeles and did not yet have a hotel booked.  This is always a bit stressful.  However, Steve discovered the joys of being able to go in the fast lane of traffic because there were two of us in the car.  It’s called Car Pooling….  All other cars only have one passenger and have to stay in the traffic-jammed lanes.  So in this outside fast lane you just whizz along unobstructed, with no-one cutting you up or jumping in or out and it is the most marvelous way to travel on a motorway and I think it should be introduced into every motorway system.  Surely the best effect would be that people would really try to find someone to share their car journeys with them so that they can use this Lane.   Instead of it taking us 4 hours we got across in only two and arrived in a gorgeous little beach resort Laguna.  Steve, as always, found a fantastic little room overlooking the sea and in the most fragrant of gardens.  I was in 7^th heaven.  As Steve has 3 talks booked for Los Angeles we thought we would do the touristy thing in L.A. on the way back and just get to San Diego and have a nice rest.  Steve said that if the car pool sign said you had to have 3 people in the car in order to use it – it would be worth kidnapping someone to put in the car even though they might not be going your way!!  Hopefully he was just kidding.

We found a lovely little jewel of a room in Laguna Beach area late at night and had a good rest after such a long day traveling.  The view of the bay as always was spectacular as was the gardens, which were so fragrant.  But we felt now that we wanted to get down to San Diego where we could stay for 3 days at time as it becomes so tiring packing up and unpacking on a daily basis and also is time consuming for Steve finding the hotels each time. 

Again he found such a jewel of a hotel called the Bahia and the grounds are so sumptuous that it reminds me of Bali.  As always… wildlife… as we got to our door on the ground floor we were met by two families of ducks wanting food.  Each family had around 8 – 10 chicks and I quickly found something to give them.  They were so tame that they took it from our hands.

Lots of smuggling then, at breakfast with boxes of cheerios and a few Danish pastries.  They obviously knew we would be good at that as they were waiting for us to come back….

The other brilliant thing was a private beach and when Steve and I went on down for a little while we were the only people on it.  Could have been because it was quite windy though.  Steve was enamored with the pictures of the beach on the Internet, which showed a double-bed situation to lie on and sunbathe with a bit of a  ‘Hoody’ going on.  How brilliant was that!, a bit of shelter and we got all set up, I was on the wind facing side, but it was bearable whilst the hood was up, but what is it with men that they have to fiddle with contraptions?  He immediately put the ‘Hoody’ down as he did not want to get a shadow on his suntanning procedure and I immediately was covered in goose bumps as the cold wind hit me.  I made him change sides with me and then as he realised how cold it was he had to re-construct.  But just like the proverbial deck chairs it was easy to take down but a bugger to put back up…. I had to walk down to look at the one next to us to see how it was constructed.  By the time all that was sorted out… it was time to go in for dinner…. Oh Well!!  It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Tomorrow Steve has been asked to appear on the Breakfast TV show, so we will need to be up early in the morning.  This will be the first T.V appearance although he has another to do in the Carolinas.  Out research hostesses who took us out to dinner last night said that the programme makers were putting on good topics and were very open-minded so it should be worth doing.

Lots of love

Annie

Tour Diary 26

Tour Diary – 26

The pictures are of the amazing café ChaCha’s décor in Haight Ashbury.  These huge collages were all around the walls.

We found a relative of ‘Alan the Gopher’ – stuffed I’m afraid… in a taxidermy shop and Steve couldn’t resist capturing the image

( Taxidermy shops really give me the creeps.. What a weird way to make a living!)

I’ve also added on a few more lovely comments to our tour and a review done by a journalist after the Ozark conference.

Steve’s You Tubes have now been viewed by over 96,000 people or ‘hits’.  (Makes the 30 people in Denny’s seem like small fry!)

I am amazed at how many people come up to us at talks and tell me how much Steve’s You Tube videos have helped them to come to terms with their own Experiences and how they don’t know what they would have done without his help…

He also now has over 1,800 subscribers for his You Tube vids as they come out.

Tour Diary 26 – The Big Sur stories – Big Dipper – Artistic Weird Synchronicity  and Chuck Jones…

Travelling down the coast

There are so many things to comment on traveling down the coast that I could be writing for weeks but a few things stood out which I will jot down.

The overwhelming thing has been the incredible Flowers and foliage.  As an ardent gardener, all my life, I am just completely amazed at the love and care taken to delight the eyes all the way.  The main surprise has been the wild flowers growing on all the verges of these very long motorways, which in themselves are a total delight too.  Smooth, wide, well maintained and the driving of others thoughtful, studied and well-mannered.   Yesterday was the first time I saw a driver cut up another and zig and zag through the traffic dangerously.  The first time in all our weeks here!.  At home on the M 25 it is every other driver.

I was told that the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson started the planting of wild flowers along the verges of motorways and so it has been a huge success.  The majority of these little wild flowers are lilac, pink or white and they can be in individual swathes of colour or mixed in huge carpets and they just go on for miles.  Then in the towns the inhabitants take great care to plant up their own verges outside their houses, not just in the grounds inside their walls and these then are bourgainvillea and masses of red and purple bushes.  Coupled with the natural tropical trees and huge succulents everywhere I am just mesmerized and entranced as we drive along.  I have the camera when we are driving, as although Steve is pretty much just steering and nothing else on our lovely automatic car, I baulk at him filming at the same time!

But he says I should stop taking pictures of waves crashing and flowers as it will take him forever to edit. Especially since I put the camera down and I have sometimes not turned it off properly and so he has to edit minutes of my lap or my pretty toes!!

Yesterday also, I tried really hard to capture the pelicans, which have also so delighted me.  But they are very difficult to capture on film.

They have been with us since Texas, not the same ones I don’t think!! But flocks of them.  Yesterday we took a break on a beach so that Steve could fly his kite and chill out and I once again sat entranced watched them.  This time however, there were a number of flocks, which ended up amalgamating.  They seemed to bash into to each other.. fly around for ages trying to get themselves sorted in in doing so are making strange letter formations before finally deciding how they are going to fly together.  One of them nearly decapitated itself by flying too near to Steve’s Kite line.  So I was a bit concerned about that.  Then as I watched the flock made a perfect S shape in the air and I was thinking ‘How cool is that!!’… when they regrouped into the usual V formation but… there were 2 birds right in the middle and so they had formed a perfect A!!  As I was sitting there being amazed at this I suddenly thought.. perhaps they are trying to tell us something and I burst out laughing … if you re-arranged the 2 letters and extend the vowel sounds  you get a perfect…. A…SS…  I think they were making a comment on Steve and his kite!!

Then as I continued to watch the space they were flying in I saw a strange phenomena with some planes.  Steve had said the day before that he thought we should start to see some UFO’s within the next few days, so I have been watching the skies more than usual.

A plane caught my eye because  behind it, and so close as to be dangerous, I saw what appeared to be a shiny light.  I presumed it must be a helicopter and plane flying together although I couldn’t imagine why.  As the plane flew along the light/helicopter disappeared which is what made me sit up and take notice for its weirdness.  Then the plane appeared to just stop in mid air.  I know this can look this way when they are actually moving away from you so that is what I thought it was doing.  However, it then went back exactly the way it had just come from.  Steve commented that it was probably just making a turn to land at the airport.  O.K. then, but when I looked again it had turned back and was going again in the first line I saw it on.  Right then, I thought, this is REALLY WEIRD so I focused harder and it disappeared!  There was a crystal clear blue sky, not a single cloud and it was just gone.  Steve said it must be there you are just not seeing it.

I stared and noticed another plane coming in from the left on the same path obviously coming from the airport I was thinking, and so I watched that, still looking out for the disappeared plane and then when it got into the same area of sky, it too just disappeared.

This happened three times and no matter how hard I scanned the sky these planes were there one minute and then the next they were gone.

I cannot explain what I saw and I also cannot explain what was on the tail of the first plane when it first caught my eye… A most peculiar aerospace anomaly..

So moving on…  Steve reeled in his Kite.. the pelicans kept out of his way and we got back in the car…

Foliage… kite flying and pelicans it doesn’t get much better than that unless it is looking out of your Hotel Window in Pismo bay and seeing dolphins and sea otters swimming by.. that does cap it all a little bit!

In Santa Cruz – a gorgeous little town with the most beautiful shops and restaurants and again fantastic tree planting and foliage all along its streets… we took a short break so that I could go to the Boardwalk and have a ride on one of the oldest Big Dippers in the world.  It was opened in 1924 and is deemed by Roller Coaster fanatics… (I kid you not, they travel the world riding Roller coasters)… I’d have to say.. ‘Get a life’.. but anyway they say that this one is the best.

We were only going to stop for this event for me and the timing was so crucial although we did not know that at the time.  After my ride we were moving on down the coast and would not be coming back this way so it was a one off chance.  By the time we got there and had a late lunch we didn’t get to the Boardwalk until late afternoon.  We strolled along the lovely art deco boardwalk looking for the entrance to the big dipper and finally found our way to pay for my ticket and to find the access to the ride.  Steve really wanted to join me, but gets so sick on these rides that I knew it would be a solitary affair.

I got in the queue.. me first and chatted with the attendant who told me I was in the best position as I could get into the front car.  Either the front or back was the best place to sit.  Great then.. As I walked to the front car.. two mean little gate crashers ran past me and got in the first car!!  If they hadn’t have been so young – about 8 or 9 I could have got into a fight and staked my claim.  As it was I threatened to get in the car with them, which really threw them…

But it added to my joy to see them screaming and enjoying the trip so much just a few feet in front of me.

I’m not sure how I managed to stay in my seat as this is a completely wooden track and it goes at over 40 m.p.h. very rattling.. Over some of the bumps I literally came up out of the seat and only the bar keeps you in.  I didn’t bother to look for Steve, I was supposed to wave for the camera it took all my concentration to convince myself that…’This soon will be over and you will be back on dry land and in one piece and it cannot possibly get more manic or higher or lower that this… etc..’

I survived it .. just and we had got there at 4.55 p.m. and my ride was the last one of the day before it shut down.  So when Steve said ..”Would you like to go again”  I had to say… “Ah no, unfortunately it is closing, otherwise of course I would love to ride again”

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH Saved by the bell in the nick of time!

I, of course, told Steve it was magical.. I didn’t mention that I nearly got into a punch-up with two 8 year olds.. too undignified…

Santa Cruz Big Dipper… made it just in time and I can now cross that one off my bucket list.  It’s made me think I might like to revise my list of 1,000’s of things I want to do on my bucket list before I leave the planet.  Some of them might not be such good ideas as I first thought!  Sky diving, bungee jumping and kite-surfing spring to mind.

The Boardwalk also boasts one of only 6 Charles Looff Carousels, which I also love although I think now the carousel animals  are too high for me to climb on.  We saw another lovely one in Texas and I should have photographed a really cute little Japanese boy who had had his face painted as a white tiger and who found a white tiger to sit on.. a magical moment…

Outside of Santa Cruz I was trying to guide us to the Mystery Spot but we couldn’t find the signs for it.  Here the laws of physics don’t seem to apply as trees grow in really weird contorted corkscrew shapes and balls roll uphill.  Some of the pictures we have seen of this place are so peculiar, it looks like the people are leaning over at a 45 degree angle.  There are reputed to be vortexs there, but it seemed to be also secret as well as Mysterious as we couldn’t find it.

Another strange event took place on the pier in Santa Barbara another gorgeous little place – so many of them along this exquisite coastline.

We had gone into a little pier shop selling shells.  I love to look at them even though I feel sad that they are on sale. 

One of those weird paradoxes of life.  Love it but hate it at the same time.

As we entered the shop the shop owner/sales assistant (I wasn’t sure which) was talking with a person at the counter and we heard… UFO’s.  So our ears pricked up and we moved towards the group and they continued to speak about the phenomenon of ET’s and how we are not alone.  The owner looked at Steve and said..”and you sir, do you have something to add to that” and I was amazed to hear Steve say.. ‘Yes, I am an ET Experiencer of 50 years and they are very real”

Steve never talks about being an Experiencer unless he is with other Experiencers or Researchers of the subject matter, he just doesn’t…. as he cannot be bothered trying to prove his case.  With all the people here in the USA asking him why we are  here and what his book is about, he is only saying about the final parts of the book, which is about human evolution- (except for last night in an art shop and I will write about that later..)

The young man then said… ‘Ah here we have a synchronistic event which must be celebrated because you coming in here and interacting with our conversation was not by accident’ and he handed Steve a brown envelope, which looked like a greeting card.  I was looking forward to chatting some more, but Steve just walked out the shop and the man did not in fact look like he expected to have more conversation.

So I asked to look at the card, which is a very elaborated printed up affair which says…

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

synchronicity

Alexandre Phillipe

Chance/deliberate human interaction

Edition of 3,000,000

Alexandre Phillipe

(signature of the artist)

This document certifies that the event which

just happened is an original art work of

Alexandre Phillipe

How very peculiar.  Steve did not seem at all phased by it and was not surprised, as I was, that he spoke to strangers about his being an Experiencer and we just walked on…  He said ‘Annie it was just one of those things’

What happened last night when he spoke about the actual facts of his book, occurred here in San Diego where we are at the moment.  We had gone out to eat in the lovely old part of town called Gas Lamp.  As we strolled along the wonderful streets we came across a fantastic art shop selling all the art works and prints of Chuck Jones.  Chuck Jones created the ‘Roadrunner’, ‘Bugs Bunny’, and many more iconic cartoon characters which I remember so well from my childhood.  I just loved them all and the receptionist was a lovely lady who really knew her stuff about his life and work.  Although she herself was an actor who had done a years exchange at RADA when she was doing her MA in Dramatic Art, so she must have been good.  (She went on to say that her creativity now was in bringing up 2 small children which was a lovely thing to say)

She asked why we were here and when Steve said he had written a book she asked what it was about and I was surprised that he told her straight away and we both then just wait for the response. 

She was completely non-plussed and said the Chuck Jones was a great believer in UFO’s and ET’s and had been all his life and had created his character ‘Marvin the Martian’ after the 1947 Roswell event as he lived in the area at that time and knew all about the crashed craft and the retrieval of the ET bodies.  She said that George Lucas had ‘stolen’ the headmask from ‘Marvin the Martian’ for Darth Vader in Star Wars.. Wow… I just love all these connections.  I also would have loved to have bought an original or  even a print.  There was a beautiful one called ‘Bear hug’ of a huge stuffed animal bear cuddling a tiny boy.  I would have liked to have bought one for each of my nieces but even the prints were out of our price range and the original sketches started in the hundreds of dollars.

The receptionist said that the child was Chuck’s grandson who is now the CEO of the company.  How lovely to have your childhood image captured in such a loving way…

More lovely supporting comments and a newspaper article after the Ozark conference

“How is Steven's U.S. tour coming along? Have there been exciting experiences to report?  He is such an inspiration. You are such a great support to him ~what a blessing the pair of you are to others~what a breath of fresh air to those of us who share similar histories and experiences. I suppose there are many geniune Experiencers in the world but it is difficult to find one so open and honest about things who isn't easily shaken or disturbed or otherwise angry, depressed or purely in it for profit... your Steven being a reasonable & true messenger is a rare one among us indeed”

“Wow Anne thanks for the 4 orb pics. They are definitely with you both – all the way.  The 1st shot where Steve was circled within their energy was superb.  When we call they do come down and allow themselves to be photographed……thinking of u both everyday…no need to reply  Lots of Love” 

Carroll County News.

On the other end of the spectrum, UFO Abductee/ET contact Steven Jones from the UK spoke about having been abducted since the age of five in 1962.

He talked about how his first contacts were with the short, robotic "Greys" and how as a child he didn't fear them but came to fear his experiences as a teenager.

He said in 2001, the Greys "stepped behind the barrier and the 'Light Beings' stepped in."

He described them as more than 9 feet tall and "otherworldly," having a humanoid shape but filled with sparkly lights.

His most recent contacts have been with "human-appearing ETs, stunningly beautiful," having blond hair and blue eyes. He said they are advanced in science, and their emotional range is different.

"They are, after all, alien."

This contact started in February, he said.

He said he has been aboard alien craft and seen hybrid human/ET fetuses in "fish tanks." He also played with hybrid children. He has also been taken to a crystalline planet that seems to be a meeting place.

"The ETs want us to stop being fearful," he said. "They've done procedures, but nothing different from what happens in a hospital. They've never hurt me."

He said the ETs are all around us and do attend UFO conferences, along with members of clandestine agencies.

"Our awakening is about how we treat ourselves, each other and the planet," Jones said. "ET contact is about us becoming aware of our full potential."

He said the ETs have told him that what will happen over the next few years is an awakening of the 90 percent of our DNA that we don't use, what scientists call "junk DNA."

He called that 90 percent "the sleeping element that will be the fundamental element of our awakening."

He said the existence of the ether field was proven in 1986 and published in an article in "Nature."

"The ether field connects everything. You can affect things, but you have to speak from the correct language -- the language from the heart. We lose the ability to speak from our hearts. Be aware of what we say and how we say it. It's about intention. Intention is stimulating the evolutionary process.

"The eyes of the universe are fixed firmly on us. This planet is not in the boondocks."

Other conference speakers included Travis Walton, of "Fire in the Sky" fame; Kathy Marden, niece of Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who claimed to be abducted in 1961; and Linda Moulton Howe, an internationally known UFO and crop circle researcher who has spoken at this conference for many years.

For more information about the annual conference, visit ozarkufo.com.

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