"EXPRESSIONS OF ET CONTACT:
A VISUAL BLUEPRINT?"
A Video Review By Mike Farrell

What kind of ET Beings do people see?
What kind of art and symbols do they draw?
The scripts and language, what do they look and sound like?
How and why do 'experiencers' feel impelled to create such unusual artwork and symbolism?

"The purpose of this video is to demonstrate the richness, the artwork, and the symbolism, as well as the scripts and language that manifest after contact. What does this all mean? Is it just another form of art or a symbolic, visual and auditory blueprint of the world of the 'experiencer?' It offers the interested and the curious an opportunity to see an art form that is uniquely different and may be just as important as a clue to what "contact" is all about. Is it another form of communication, or is it more than that? Is it a window to opening the secret of who we are?"

And so begins the on-camera interview with Mary Rodwell, RN, therapist, researcher, and Principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN). Mary introduces some of the best audio and visual material from the ACERN database of nearly 300 cases. After her eight-minute introduction, we see an incredible assortment of over 40 drawings of "ET Beings" from both children and adult "experiencers." During this 28 minute color slide presentation we see drawings of creatures that include aboriginal sky beings to illustrate the cross-cultural aspects of this phenomenon, tall lion men that act as spiritual warriors, cream-type grays with wrinkled skin, pink and blue flying fetuses, humanoids in hooded body suits, Nordic healers, hairy brown dwarfs, small neon beings, light beings, shadow beings, zigzag head beings, praying mantis type beings, lizard and reptilian type beings, wise gentle giants, tele-tubby type beings, a pixie-like red-haired lady, grays with collars, uniforms and helmets; religious-type beautiful ladies, robot and animal types, pot-bellied green beings with flat heads and, of course, the hybrid children.

Next we're treated to 8 minutes of stunning, intricate and colorful designs that incorporate images of ET craft, faces and hands. The crystalline-type drawings have an almost angelic quality to them. Like the crop circle formations, these pictures, both large and very small, seem to resonate on some deeper and more meaningful level. The artists describe the process as one of letting go of all conscious control and allowing wonderful feelings to guide their hands. These pictures are created while the artist is distracted, as in watching television or talking on the phone. The results of their passion seem to indicate something more at work than just ordinary artistic inspiration. Of course, the artist feels that their work is connected to their "contact" experiences.

Next we see 5 minutes of examples of "alien-type" writing, which looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics or shorthand or intricate doodles. Could this be examples of a language lost long ago, or one that is yet to be discovered?

In the next 20 minutes of this film, we get to meet one of these artists and "experiencers." She is Tracey Taylor, a pretty young woman from Western Australia, who explains the symbolism of her highly geometric artwork and why she feels they act as a trigger to awaken us to further understanding of our true origins. Her "contacts" began in early childhood, and only as a teenager did she fully realize how special her "experiences" really were. She developed certain psychic and healing abilities as a result of her "contacts" with ET Beings. But her urge to create these magnificent and multi-dimensional drawings both in color and black & white is what really makes us wake up and take notice. As Tracey says in the film: "I know a lot of other people around the world have similar drawings and symbols and words and visions that come to them. It's about honoring that and validating that because even though we live in a physical world, there is much more to this than meets the eye!"

Other artists whose work is shown, but are not interviewed during this film include Leanne Reynolds, Ellis Taylor and Jane Milligan Melkior. The final 5 minutes concludes with haunting examples of the spoken "alien-type" language. Some of it sounds like Japanese or a mixture of several earth languages, but is spoken fluently and without any hesitation. The meaning is unknown, but it appears to touch us on some deeper energetic level. As you listen, you get the feeling that a very meaningful part of you may understand it.

Let me give you some idea of how this award-winning film was made. It is important to remember that it was done by 4 amateurs in just 6 weeks with limited equipment, and none of the "team" had done anything like this before. But, they all believed that this material needed to be shown to a wider audience.

Mary presented her team's video at the prestigious 9th Annual International UFO Congress held in Laughlin, Nevada (USA) in March of this year. To their gratifying surprise, their film was entered into the EBE Film Festival held at the Conference and won awards in two categories, as the "Best Abductee/Contactee Documentary" and "Best Musical Score within a Documentary." And if I may say so, the original music to this film by David Sandercock of Western Australia is truly an inspired instrumental work of beauty and emotion. So turn up the volume and enjoy!

For those of you who share the world of the "experiencer," this film will certainly "honour" your reality. If this is all new to you, than your curiosity will be satisfied.

In fact, the motto of ACERN is "to honour all realities!"
Certainly this labor of love has gone a long way to validating those who experience these other realities. For hasn't this always been the role of the artist?

We can't seem to stop all the more powerful forces that may intrude upon and visit our so-called consensus reality. But with inspiring films like this, we can find the courage to stand up tall and face the universe around us with dignity, integrity, honour and respect for all life forms. For if we can't treat each other this way, then how can we expect any otherworldly "beings" to?

The concluding remarks belong again to Mary Rodwell: "As I said on the video this is an area of research that up to now has not been honoured or appreciated and yet could tell us so much. But what seemed to touch people was not just the simplicity of the video but the amazing variety and integrity of the artwork and David Sandercock's inspired music score. All we were trying to do is to say look, this is what people feel inspired to do and express after 'contact.' This is the reality and isn't this amazing! The video was to be a confirmation for those having such experiences in that they can recognize beings they have seen. But many have told me that they have also written in odd scripts and even symbols, but had thrown them away, feeling they had no value apart from the overwhelming desire to speak in strange languages. They talk of 'downloading' this information. This is amazing stuff!"

Yes, no matter what you think about it, this is amazing stuff!

Thank you for your time.

Video ordering and contact information: email Mary Rodwell or phone/fax Australia (08) 9385 7795 international, Phone/Fax (618) 9385 7795 or mail:
ACERN
2 Windarra Drive
City Beach, Perth
Western Australia 6015.

***(All funds go to ACERN which offers information and counseling to those with contact experiences, and further research into this phenomenon.)

To conact the reviewer…
Mike Farrell UFO Video Hunter & Researcher
Member of: UFOR-NSW & INUFOR-NSW
Director of UFO-VAC 2000
(UFO Video Action Coalition)

PO Box 1344
Port Macquarie
New South Wales
Australia 2444

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Mary Rodwell, RN, was born in the UK, but has lived in Western Australia for the past nine years. She is a former nurse and midwife. Now she is a professional counselor with 15 years experience, Reiki Master, and Metaphysician. An author of several published articles including "Star Children" (appearing in this month's edition of PlanetLightworker in the Children of the New Age section) and a "Holistic approach to the Abduction Phenomenon," Mary is an international speaker on Contact. She is a clinical member of the ACCET (Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists) California and a committee member of The Australasian Society of Psychical Research.

In 1997, she established Australia's first professional experiencer support network ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network). The purpose of ACERN is to provide counseling and support to experiencers and their families-both one-to-one and via telephone and internet, run support groups in which experiencers come together regularly to share thoughts and experiences, provide reference and reading material to family members, researchers, and other helping professionals, continue research in this area, write articles and books, raise public awareness of Contact by attending conferences, networking, with other Ufology/experiencer groups, giving talks, appearing in the media, co-ordinate workshops for experiencers, and train other therapists in this specialist field. Mary may be reached at (618) 9454 3702 or via e-mail.