If You Go Looking

Lyrans

XT/5/C

The human root race

Backstory rather than encounter: the origin myth for human-looking aliens.

In contactee cosmology, the original humanoid stock from which Pleiadians and eventually humans descend, driven out of Lyra by a reptilian war. Nobody reports meeting a Lyran; they report being told about them. The category exists to explain why so many claimed aliens look human, a question the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis answers a different way.

If you go looking

Engaged through channellingCommercial ecosystem

Backstory material. Its main use is to tell a reader what they supposedly are, which is precisely the hook the starseed economy is built on.

Who should be careful

Reading the code

XT/5/C

Extraterrestrial, biological · embodiment 5 of 5, an ordinary biological body · source: contactee tradition · key

Dates

Framework material: 1980s onward

Related

Ancestral to Pleiadians and Nordics within the mythology. The Lyran war is the origin story for the Reptilian antagonism.

Pleiadians →Nordics →Reptilians →Cryptoterrestrials →

Terms used on this page

XT: extraterrestrial, biological

Origin code

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.

Mac Tonnies

Published 2010

Proposed that the humanoid quality of reported occupants is a clue about where they evolved, rather than a puzzle about convergent evolution light-years away. He died in 2009; the book appeared posthumously.

Engaged through channelling

Practice-side

Contact in this tradition means trance, mediumship or automatic writing. The risks are the practice's, not the entity's: dissociation, sustained altered states, and the difficulty of telling one's own material from something external. Least suitable for anyone with a history of psychosis, mania or dissociation.

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.

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