Here, CK's experiences are recalled; and for the benefit of the reader, those in the astral realms or otherworlds are noted by parenthesis, ie [CK]

In recent years, CK has had increasing apparent experiences in astral realms, and these have included encounters with ET visitors.  CK is keen to emphasise that his accounts should not be taken as those of publicised 'abductees' or 'contactees', but then where is the line to be drawn between a true contactee, and the abductee?  It is becoming increasingly clear that 'alien abductions' do occur, but a significant number of occurrences will not be of the physical body.

It should be said that CK is not happy with the emotive term 'abduction', since it is highly probable that while astral bodies are 'taken' by other beings, it is not abduction against the person's will - the 'monitoring' by other beings is with that spirit's consent before they came into their physical incarnation, it is just that the conscious mind has forgotten its purpose here.  We have yet to come up with a suitable term to describe these encounters, as 'monitoree' sounds silly.

We realise that this type of encounter is a very deeply spiritual area, and the concepts will be very uncomfortable for many people, not least for the 'abductees'.  These descriptions may also be uncomfortable for the researchers, but all concepts must be explored.  We cannot move forward if we keep restricting our concepts and beliefs to extremely narrow paths.  If there are differences between actual physical encounters and astral encounters, do the simple terms of CE3K to CE5K suffice to cover these potential important differences?

Before we try to cover areas of CK's experiences, we must first provide some background thoughts.

CK was brought up with the normal religious 'indoctrination' that was part of the education system in this country, but never accepted the ideas of Christian teachings, so was not, in the conventional sense, a religious person.  That is not to say that he was an atheist, but more of an agnostic, and explored his own path(s).  Therefore, when he became consciously aware of aspects of his astral encounters, he did not find it easy to come to terms with the deep spiritual implications.  It was not until he started to become aware of his past, and future incarnations, that the whole picture slowly began to emerge.

One fact that should be considered by the readers at this early point is that a being's 'spirit' is truly universal.  It is wrong to describe it as the 'human spirit' - many spirits may be 'earth-bound', but they will not always have human incarnations.  CK is becoming more and more aware that few of his past lives have been here on Earth, and he still feels apart from the 'earth-bound' spirits here.  [CK] is, in the strictest sense, a visitor here.  [CK] also knows that he is not alone in being a 'spiritual visitor', there are others here as temporary residents, and they are drawn together in their human forms.  It may be of interest for readers to consider why some spiritual visitors here are regarded as 'alien' while others are regarded as 'angels' - what is the difference, perhaps it is down to people's basic beliefs?

Another aspect of the spiritual realm is that mankind's conceptions of time are totally inappropriate, if not false.  They serve as a barrier to mankind's development, but whether this barrier is self-imposed, or imposed by higher beings for mankind's own protection right now is not clear - perhaps more information will come, we was going to say "In the future", but that too is a human misconception of linear time.  The spirit has the ability to transcend any point of 'time' or space.  Therefore the spirit has the ability to have a 'past' physical incarnation here on Earth, or anywhere else in the universe, in the past, present or future, equally its 'future' can be in the past, present or future - it should be remembered that since the spirit can span time, it can also have multiple, or concurrent incarnations in any part of mankind's 'linear timeline'.

We should also consider the different forms of 'astral being', or at least those used by the spirit.  As any of you who travels as the astral self will know, there are many levels of astral being that we can attain, sometimes referred to as being between 'light' and 'heavy', but perhaps 'density' might be a better term.  These range from the light, almost ghostly, ethereal forms, right through to the densest, when the astral body is as solid as the physical one.  While it is in this densest form, the astral body can suffer injuries and traumas, which are then reflected, or mimicked, back on the physical body - perhaps the two bodies are almost symbiotically connected?  These mimicked injuries and marks are a very important point to remember when we consider bodily marks suffered by 'abductees'.  However, in these forms, the astral body still retains the shape and form of its 'host', whether that is animal, human, or of course 'alien'.  When the spirit transcends these lower astral realms, it sheds any connection to a physical form, and becomes a true 'free sprit', which is amorphous, and the feeling is totally different - as one fellow traveller puts it "  like just being a pair of eyeballs moving through space.."

It might be worth considering the concepts of astral realms.  To most people, these conjure up images of spiritual realms, with higher beings.  However, current science is already working with concepts of other dimensions, and even now speculates on at least ten other dimensions to our own - could these be the same as astral realms?  Since 'we' are able to travel to other astral realms in time and space, then we must accept that other beings will have mastered this technique, and could be travelling here with just as much regularity.  Perhaps they have simply taken a different route of technological evolution, or perhaps they just didn't take the 'nuts and bolts' technological approach at all, and mastered full psychic and telekinetic abilities?

Having briefly looked at backgrounds to experiences, where to start with accounts?  CK was aware of certain experiences with other beings at an early age, and openly talked about them to his parents, but they were dismissed as 'dreams' or 'nightmares' that children have - how many of you have had similar experiences that were dismissed in the same way?

One recurring 'dream' from early childhood, and indeed one that carried on through to CK's mid-twenties, was what might now be termed as part of the classic abduction scenario.  This is where he was consciously aware of being in a room of bright light, lying on his back, unable to move, with a deep pulsing noise/feeling coming from behind.  Breathing was also difficult, and perhaps was best likened to having a mask over the nose and mouth.  This dream sometimes occurred two or three times a week, but it was always very similar.  Sometimes the room would look slightly different, but the one common factor was the appearance in the room of beings - of varying heights, but all with enlarged heads, and they were all grey!  This recurring dream did finally stop, but then was superseded with the other encounters with other beings, but by now [CK] had free will in these encounters, and was not in any sense subjected to examination.

During his childhood years, CK had frequent 'dreams' of what he would now term as alien beings - many of these were before the advent of the modern sci-fi type of TV show, which really began in this country with Dr Who.  No-one else in CK's family had any interest in space or sci-fi, so where did these images come from?  CK even now can recall quite clearly looking out of his bedroom windows at night, and seeing various lights and 'flying saucers'.  It should be emphasised that CK's 'dreams' of this type when a child are not uncommon, especially today, but back in the early 1960s, sci-fi images didn't exist in such numbers in all sorts of mediums.

It has been perhaps since 1992 that CK has had more conscious recollection of 'dreams' and astral travels, and this conscious awareness of other realms is increasing at an accelerating rate, so much so that in the past couple of years, the real memories of astral travels and encounters are being 'held' in conscious memory as soon as they occur.  This acceleration seems to have happened after one very peculiar 'dream', in which CK clearly recalls sitting on the settee at home, reading a book on sci-fi TV shows, while the TV was playing in the corner of the room, with Lenny Henry doing a comedy sketch, and the time was obviously during a late summer evening.  For no good reason, [CK] felt compelled to look out of the window, and when he did so a shining metallic domed disc was sitting in the sky above the houses opposite, glinting in the evening sun.  An intense blue-white beam of light came out of the dome of the craft, came straight through the window, and hit [CK] in the forehead, in his 'Third Eye' - the pain was truly intense, and he thinks he screamed.  The next thing CK recalls is sitting bolt-upright in bed, and as he clutched his head, his first thoughts were "...my head hasn't been blown off..."  CK was drenched in sweat, and had a severe headache for the next two days.  Just what was all that about?  CK still does not know, and we am not going to speculate here.

On a visit to Avebury in December 1997, CK was with a friend, who we'll call John.  Both were aware of strange lights and sounds, even to the point of of a distinct "Hello" twice being spoken, apparently coming from one of the stones.  A further occurrence happened later that night, when [CK] astrally travelled back to Avebury, as if drawn back for some reason, and even more curiously, yet another close friend was there in her astral self.  [CK] recalls very clearly standing within the main ring of stones in the night, looking towards the Avenue, with the banks of the henge silhouetted against the sky,  the clump of trees on the bank adjacent to the West Kennett road seemed to be standing guard.  A bright red ball of light appeared above the Avenue, and it moved slowly around in the sky, sometimes pulsing, occasionally flashing.  After about a minute, it flashed brightly and then vanished.  Is a sighting like this while in the astral self classifiable as a UFO sighting?  How does one investigate it - we know the place, and an apparent time, as long as the astral self didn't have a temporal shift.  It is hard enough to check out sighting details for this 'reality continuum'.

This type of energy form UFO has now been seen very regularly by [CK].  Four of these were seen recently in an early morning at one of the Oxfordshire iron-age hill forts.  These four balls of energy were darting and almost dancing around above the fort, but occasionally they would stop and 'hover' though while stationary they tended to bob up and down.  [CK] was also aware that on this occasion he was not in a physical form, and he too was seeing everything as if he too were slowly bobbing up and down, though he never seemed to take notice of whether he was also a pulsating ball of energy in this form.  After this event, [CK] was convinced that the four other forms were almost playing, and kept stopping to see if he would join them, and he now regrets not taking up the apparent invitation.

On two other occasions [CK] has seen these pulsating balls of energy creating crop circles, and another very probable creation - the 'Beltane Ring' near Silbury Hill.  This formation was found on May 4th, although [CK] saw its apparent creation while travelling at Avebury in the early hours of May 2nd - did he shift in time, or was the circle somehow 'primed' to appear some hours later?  It should be noted that this is the only crop circle that as yet matches the location that [CK] has astrally witnessed.

One very vivid recollection of [CK] in 1995 was a long 'flight' he had over Wiltshire and parts of Salisbury Plain, a region with a history of UFOs and more recently crop-circles.  The experience commenced with [CK] circling over Stonehenge, his view seemed to be as if he were in a small aircraft circling over the site, but on this occasion [CK] had no physical body, and certainly was not in any aircraft.  That is not to say that [CK] did not have the sense of having a much bigger structure with and around him, which felt as if it were banking as an aircraft would.  Perhaps an analogy would be that of a pilot flying an aircraft by modern telepresence technology, though surely such an analogy is poor in these terms.  [CK] was able to clearly see the tourists at the monument, though none seemed aware of anything untoward 'flying' above them.  After a few minutes, [CK] felt like going and looking at the local areas where crop-circles tended to occur, and towards the Vale of Pewsey.  What makes this experience strange, was that in doing so, his 'course' took him near Netheravon airfield, an Army Air Corps (AAC) base.  [CK] could see two helicopters coming up from the airfield, and CK is an aviation enthusiast, so [CK] had no difficulty recognising these two helicopters as Lynx AH-7's.  [CK's] flight and that of the helicopters were going to cross, almost to the point of collision.  The helicopters didn't deviate, so presumably were not aware of another aircraft in such close proximity, but [CK], in his flight, felt obliged to fly up over the two Lynx's, almost 'buzzing' them, though he felt no turbulence from their rotors.  An intriguing point is that [CK] could see the co-pilot of the nearest Lynx looking at where [CK] was, and afterwards wondered if that pilot was looking at what he would have thought was a UFO?  [CK] did eventually 'visit' five crop formations during this 'flight', though none have been seen in what might be termed our current 'reality continuum'.  Another curious aspect within this experience was that at times, [CK] was able to 'jump' across parts of the countryside to get to places he wished to be, though perhaps a 'zoom' might be a better term.  Is there a possibility that in this instance, [CK] was flying a craft that went where he willed it?  He felt that many of his manoeuvres were similar to the almost erratic flight associated with so many UFOs, from the simple 'balls of light' (BOLs), through to apparent structured craft.

It is time to mention some of the aspects of ET encounters.  [CK] has been clearly aware of being on spaceships with various other beings.  These ships are obviously physical and solid, but [CK] is sure he was not there physically, so was his presence in an astral world more easily definable as another dimension?  [CK] is also very aware of flying some of these craft - flight control is done by the simple power of thought, the ship goes where the 'pilot' wills it, though [CK] is not sure how these ships are propelled.  The beings themselves range from five or six different humanoid types, to two reptilian species, and several different types of 'greys'.  The greys seem to fall into quite distinct categories.  there are the taller types, with smaller heads, but these taller ones are the living beings.  The smaller type, with the familiar huge head - the archetypal 'Grey', are, as most of us suspect, genetically cloned and created drones, and these seem to be used as 'workers' by all the other living types of being.  All of these other species seem to be working together, the ships have mixed crews, and without trying to trivialise the subject, it doesn't seem so different to the scenes in sci-fi shows such as Babylon 5, or the Star Trek spin off series such as Next Generation or Deep Space 9.  Perhaps this closeness to sci-fi imagery is a considerable note of caution to be kept in mind in all CK's experiences?

CK stresses it should be emphasised that in no sense is he there as an 'old-style contactee', with all manner of dire warnings on mankind's future being given to him.  If anything, he seems to be sitting in on briefings, all done telepathically.  Visual images are 'beamed' at him, rather like looking at a rapid piece of video footage, the process seems something akin to a flash download of computer information.  The information being given is rarely comprehensible at the time, and very little seems to refer to CK's current physical life.  It seems as if the other beings are trying to get CK to 'remember' other worlds and other lives, and the information is more like accumulated knowledge, and perhaps the best term for the whole process would be 'enlightenment'.

CK does have some of these memories triggered when in this physical world, particularly when with like-minded people, and especially fellow spiritual visitors.  Channelling has also triggered memories, none more so than the presence of 'children' on the ships.  At first [CK] thought they were 'abducted' human children.  He was quite disturbed when the realisation came that these 'children' are the hybrid results of the long-suspected alien/human breeding programme.  He was more disturbed to be told that he was to play a role in the future of these hybrid children - the full implications of this have yet to unfold.

We hope that you will appreciate that the above just scratches the surface of experiences for one person.  There is a vast range of material still to be uncovered...