UFO... Contact from Planet Iarga-A report of the Investigation. Voluntary visit aboard alien spaceship, Hi-technology equipment observed aboard, Scenes of home planet exhibited by a form of electronic projection, Extended discussions of science, technology, society and philosphy of Iarga and a lot more.....
I wrote a long paragraph and it disappeared. Curious. Read this in a day and a half obsessively, on the recommendation of Deep Prasad, as something he pointed to as potentially a genuine account of an alien message. It did not disappoint. Part 2 and 3 particularly, hit me hard.
This book is supposedly about a true encounter with aliens from the planet Iarga. The incident took place in the 1960’s. The author “Stephan Denaerde” (not his real name) spent 8 hours with them over the course of 2 days. The author is a resident of the Netherlands and is a successful and rich mechanical engineer, and the CEO of several companies. The first half of the book, concerning the actual meeting, was written as a science fiction because the publisher thought nobody would believe it. It was originally printed in Dutch and sold thousands of copies. I found the book extremely interesting and thought for the most part it possibly could be a true account. One thing did bother me was the flying saucer flown by the aliens was extremely loud, but all the reports that I have heard as well as the one I actually saw, were noiseless. But, maybe the quiet ones are from other planets. The main thing the encounter produced was showing how primitive, inefficient, warlike, selfish, jealous and hateful we humans are........which I do not disagree with. The Iargans stressed that we have to mature and change our ways before we start space exploration for real. The description of Iarga and the lifestyle I found extremely believable and logical. I would have given the book a solid 4 or 5.
In the late 1970’s, ret. Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens went to Europe, where he heard about this incident. Stevens was a long time UFO researcher, and arranged to meet with the author. Supposedly the author, since writing the original book, had many long distance esp sessions with the Iargans where he learned additional information. A second part of the book was written, translated to English and Stevens had it printed in the USA. I started reading the second part, but was unable to finish it. The second part was all about God, the purpose of life and the universe, the devil, reincarnation, the “end times” and the Bible. He starts of using “logic” to prove the existence of GOD. It was so confusing, I can’t begin to explain. An example of how weird it got, I skimmed through and found a part that said that during the “end times” space ships flown by angels will come and save the good people. It just got too weird, preachy, unbelievable, and VERY confusing, that I completely lost interest and could not force myself to finish it. And this was after spending a lot of money for a signed first edition of the English expanded version.
Super vermakelijk om te lezen, vooral veel creatieve onzin. Wel echt progressief voor 1969. Ik vind het leuk dat de aliens in dit boek heel maatschappelijk kritisch zijn naar mensen op aarde. De thema's zijn zelfs nu nog best actueel.
Wel erg vermoeiend dat het hele boek bestaat uit een langdradig gesprek tussen de hoofdpersoon en de aliens en een beschrijving van de buitenaardse wereld. Daardoor is het moeilijk niet in slaap te vallen. Maar dat viel in die tijd vast wel mee.
the first part was pretty good, perhaps 90% purity of the information, however the later part was close to 30-40% purity due to the spiritual immaturity of the channel, though it had some reminiscence of confederation material. He also was highly wisdom focused and has his pet issues, so possibly a fifth density wanderer. Definitely worth archiving, especially the first part.
Ik heb dit boek na zo'n 100 pagina's weggelegd (terwijl ik over het algemeen boeken die ik vreselijk vind toch probeer uit te lezen). In het begin intrigeerde het filosofische beeld van 'de ideale beschaving' me wel. Maar hoe verder ik kwam, hoe meer ik me begon te irriteren aan het overduidelijke jaren 60 wereldbeeld dat hierin doorsijpelde. Als in een ideale beschaving radicale gelijkheid niet méér betekent dan dat "de huisvrouw" niet méér tijd hoeft te besteden aan het huishouden en opvoeden van de kinderen, dan dat de man hoeft te besteden aan werk, dan ben ik afgehaakt. Daarnaast vond ik het een onprettige schrijfstijl en was ik blij toen ik niet meer verder hoefde te lezen van mezelf.