Advisers rather than experimenters. Almost all from one author.
Benevolent, tall, sometimes described as blue-skinned, communicating telepathically and acting as advisers rather than experimenters. Almost the entire tradition traces to Alex Collier from the early 1990s and his Defending Sacred Ground. The tell is astronomical: “from Andromeda” is not an address.
Claimed to have travelled here from another star system in an ordinary physical body.
Degree of embodiment: 5, an ordinary biological body
Scale, 1 to 5
5 is an ordinary biological body. 4 is physical but manifests oddly. 3 comes and goes. 2 is energetic or subtle. 1 is consciousness with no persistent form. Note that this tends to fall as a tradition ages.
C: contactee tradition
Source code
Traceable to one named person's claimed meetings. Detailed, often internally consistent, and rarely corroborated by anyone who did not read the first account.
“From Andromeda”
Problem
Andromeda is a galaxy of roughly a trillion stars, 2.5 million light-years away. Saying a civilisation is from Andromeda is not an address in the way “from Sirius” is, and some accounts mean the constellation instead, whose stars are unrelated and at wildly different distances.
Commercial ecosystem
Documented harm
A paid economy has grown around this tradition, whether readings, courses, retreats and private sessions, or books, tours and media that keep promising more. Not automatically predatory, but it does mean some of what you will read was written to sell something, and that people in distress are a market.
Deliberate contact work
Read this first
The hazard in this subject attaches to the method, not to which name you aim it at. Ouija work, invocation, sustained channelling, induced hypnagogia, deliberate sleep deprivation and hypnotic regression are the practices associated with difficulty, and a session aimed at a benevolent civilisation is not safer than one aimed at something considered lower. What raises risk is doing it alone, doing it repeatedly, doing it while sleep-deprived, and doing it with an existing vulnerability to psychosis, mania or dissociation. People who get into trouble here overwhelmingly got there through practice, not through reading.
Who should be careful
Practice-side
Anyone with a personal or family history of psychosis, bipolar disorder or dissociative conditions, anyone in acute crisis, and anyone isolated from people who would notice a change in them. Intensive contact practice is destabilising by design (that is what it is for), and destabilisation lands hardest on people already close to an edge.