Interactive catalogue · claims, sources and lineages
Non-human intelligence:
a field guide to the traditions
59 traditions of non-human intelligence, from the fae and the djinn to the Greys, traced to their sources: who first described each one, when, and whether anyone else arrived at the same idea independently. Nothing here asserts that any of them exist.
A record of what traditions claim, not instruction or advice. If an experience is frightening you, or contact work is affecting your sleep, your mood or your grip on things, speak to your GP and to someone who knows you well. More on the approach →
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Where each tradition came from Lineage
The relationship map that matters. Most links between these beings are not links between beings at all. They are links between books, and between the people who wrote them.
Archetypes that recur Kinship
Grouped by shared form rather than claimed origin. The question for each cluster is whether unconnected cultures arrived at it separately, or whether it spread from one source and was later mistaken for convergence.
The alliance structure Internal cosmology
These relationships exist only inside the contactee and channelled literature. Set out here because it answers “how do these beings relate to each other” within that tradition, not because there is reporting behind it.
Aligned with human autonomy
- Andromedans, and the Andromedan Council
- Pleiadians and Plejaren
- Lyrans, as ancestral stock
- Nordics, in the older contactee material
- Arcturians, in the later channelled material
Cast as controlling
- Reptilians and Draconians
- The Orion group
- Certain Grey factions
- Anunnaki, in the Sitchin-derived versions
Three things are worth noticing. The structure appears in the early 1990s, not the 1950s: the contactees of the Adamski era had visitors, not a war. It maps cleanly onto human political narrative, with a council, a resistance and an occupying interest. And the roles are assigned by disposition rather than biology: the same Greys appear on both sides depending on which author is writing.