Latest podcast added to the current archives: "From Under Officer to Wing Commander"
Channeling Session Date:
(10/24/94)
 
   This month's podcast comes with a bonus not seen in previous channeling sessions where we begin with one session and then switch to part two of the session five days later. In the first session we had set up the events we would complete in the second when the guest speaker in question could join us. The title for the session comes from the life of that guest speaker, Wing Commander Taal, who was making his first appearance as one of our teachers. Frequent readers of our website will already know Taal from his many times channeling for our group but this was his introduction to the channeling setup. It is also one of the earliest sessions our sound technician was able to make clear enough to be heard so much of what is discussed has been previously submitted to the archives. One item of note before going into the summary is that we see right away that the head of communication for Ashtar Command starting the session. Korton was actually a regular speaker in the earlier channelings and each was notable for their abundance of decorum that would be lacking once he began attending only on occasion. As we have learned in later channeling sessions from Omal, they were testing out various main speakers and it was found Omal made a better fit for when we began adding guests to our channeling sessions. The lighter mood led to more informative if distracting, recordings. One last item of note was that Omal had yet to adopt his traditional farewell of "live long and prosper" but his question he raises about Mr. Spock is a clue it was shortly after this he began to use it his departures. Now, onto the summary.

   Korton gets us started and we begin with some very deep areas of research Mark and I had been doing as far as improving our methods for getting to the base. Mark is a master of astral travel and had left questions about some rarefied knowledge related to the skill called traveling in the grey area. That meant stopping at a specific point by projecting an energy source that detonates ahead of the traveler to stop them suddenly. The tricky part was that the gray area was the fourth dimension of time and Mark was perfecting his ability to time jump, meaning return in the time stream after ninety minutes had passed in real time but actually leaving the base after being there sixteen hours. When the term time translocation comes up, this is what is being discussed. My questions mirror Mark's in that I too was trying to use implosions but for the purpose of making my astral body more solid. We end with Korton's advice on how to help a friend of ours who had come to me for help with astral projection. Next came Omal to get us ready for side two which would take place in five days. The Command had decided the viewpoint from one of the pilots of the base's craft would help give our archives knowledge on how that part of the base operated. Before that though we had a bit of fictional entertainment to discuss. Mark had just seen a "Star Trek" film on the televisions and we had each been reading a book series called the "Galactic Milieu Series". Both sets of entertainment focused around inhabitants of other planets so it was relevant to our normal topics. Not relevant but important for my training was Omal's helping me with my manifesting abilities by making a penny appear out of thin air, always good for a laugh. After setting up the arrangements for our time with the pilot, we finish with his request for the details on an incident where Mark had to use his coercion. That left Karra to get us to the next side with a few topics to go over such as an energy transfer done during a demonstration which caused physical bruising on Mark's hand for a couple of days. Included was an exchange of poems between Karra and myself as well as some barnstorming of ideas on how to improve my astral travel. We end on a topic we would get back to when the next side started about genetics and human DNA.

   We get less than two minutes of completion on the question of genetics before we jump ahead five days into the future as our scheduled special guest is introduced by Omal. A change in background sound denotes the new session starting with the base commander having to stretch out the introduction because the guest speaker was swapping flying techniques with Mark as Mark was leaving the channeling room after going solid. At least the time allows him to confirm that this is our guest speaker's first time in a channeling situation so the results were anyone's guess. Omal departs and we finally meet Under Officer Taal who we know one day would make wing commander. After some time getting to know one another he answers a question on what types of visitors we get to our planet and a surprising number are scientists studying everything about our planet as well as our ancient ancestors. A startling revelation happens when asking about a famous UFO encounter between a French Mirage jet fighter where Taal admits it was himself piloting the UFO that night. That may explain why he was chosen to channel over another of the pilots since I knew a number of details he was able to clear up for me. We do find out he had been on the base seventy years of a hundred-year assignment which is amazing in that he had already served on three other bases. His being 370 was astounding in the fact that the pilots often live much less than that due to combat. It also meant this would possibly be his last assignment before he would retire as a pilot. We learn what it took to get him to his position and the risks faced in protecting our planet such as the chance of being shot down by one of our craft due to a technical malfunction and we learn he'd rather just chase off opponents of other races rather than having to engage them in a firefight. He gives us a rundown of the three types of crafts he flies and that they utilize space warps and folds to do the long-distance trips. At one point he invites me up for some simulator training to test my flying skills which later were found to be not up to their required level for even basic rescue ships. He next helps me with a sighting of some unusual craft I had seen flying in the distance while I was living in Sedona. It is a place he knows well as we learn from some of the flights he describes through its famous scenery. I had heard about some of them personally from friends who had witnessed his maneuvers. We run out of tape just about as he was asking for a request the next time I was in Sedona but we hope to bring the rest of that session someday when it comes up in the remaining recordings. What little background noise that can't be removed is well worth the interview with Wing Commander Taal for the information we had not heard previously. It is in his honor we present this month's podcast.                                 
This month's editorial is called "Where No Human Has Gone Before". This month we look at the ships and members of Ashtar Command.