What is an Experiencer? It is more than ET contact alone. This classic lecture covers the commonalities of NDEs, OBEs, NHI Contact and Consciousness.
It is now almost 5 years ago from when I first I posted this lecture to this subreddit, not long after I launched this place in November 2021. It is time to post it again.
Some background: For those who don't know him, Rey Hernandez is an Experiencer and co-founder of the Dr Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute (CCRI). He is behind the famous FREE experiencer survey and the Paranormal-Quantum Hologram Theory that proposes that NHI contact is not just 'nuts-and-bolts' only, but is also a consciousness-based, multidimensional phenomenon. This is pretty standard stuff for us here in this community.
If you look at the side bar of this subreddit you will see the following:
>r/Experiencers
>A safe space for Experiencer related discussions. **NHI Contact, HICE/CE5, Abductions, Metaphysical Experiences, Telepathic, Psionic, OBEs NDEs STEs, Mediumship, Astral Projection, Precognition, etc.** A place for genuine supportive discussion free from cynicism & aggressive scepticism. Such experiences illustrate important revelations about humanity and the reality we are in and it is important to have spaces that allow people to talk about them openly. **This means something. This is important.**
The posted lecture is about experiencers, contact modalities and how the above is all one interconnected phenomenon. It is important viewing for those new or interested in what this community is about to understand.
The video itself is nearly 9 years old and Rey has continued to do excellent work and has a lot more content out there since, but I thought it was would be valuable to repost this lecture again to highlight what many of us experiencers came to understand due to our own journeys.
This is all bigger than just contact with extra-terrestrials. (Not to take away from that). The various phenomenon, experiences and contact modalities are interconnected and linked. What I often call the **Experiencer Phenomenon** is actually about humanity, our potential and the reality we occupy itself. Along with the fact that we are not alone and that various NHI have been interacting with us from the start and the consciousness question is centre stage to all this.
I also think it is important to highlight that NHI is not a completely brand new term, but it works and is important as it covers much more of what is going on. Humanity is not just dealing with ETs.
Rey's lecture also covers so many significant aspects of what I often call the Experiencer Journey and what happens to many of us post contact awakening. Not all experiences involve NHI and not all NHI contact involves abduction experiences. While the abduction phenomenon is a highly significant aspect to all of this, the word experiencer has long grown to cover more than just being an alternative word for abductee.
This is a good thing in my opinion and was long the case for years before I started this community. I only note this because there has been some confusion on this over the years, even frustration and anger towards me and this community assuming it was us here that changed the meaning of the word but it was long understood to have this meaning before I made this space. This was my understanding of the word long before I even heard of Rey and his work.
But every now and then I hear the idea that everything only changed after 2020. Not so. This was my understanding of the term and how the internet appeared to view the term going back to the mid to late 2000s.
As I said, I think this is good thing because of what the experiencer phenomenon represents for humanity. In my own experience I would argue that the benevolent NHI out there attempting to assist us in our understanding of reality and ourselves think so too. This is said with the utmost respect and care for the extremely difficult wars fought by heroes throughout the 90s regarding the abduction phenomenon and having abduction experiencers be taken seriously.
Experiencers are the people engaging with the broader reality of the human experience and on the cutting edge of a paradigm shift in our understanding of who we are and what reality is. There appears to be overlapping layers of reality of various other type of non human beings engaging with us and us with them via consciousness based interactions and physical interactions.
>**"People know their experiences and what they have undergone does not fit with the prevailing mechanistic worldview. Large percentages of people seem to know there is an unseen world, or hidden dimensions of reality."**
>**John Mack, 1999.**
Here is a pdf link to a 2018 study to the Journal of Scientific Exploration
[The Behavioural Outcomes Resulting from a Reported Contact Experience with Non-Human Intelligent Beings ](https://bobdavisspeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/jse322hernandezetal.pdf)
I will paste a little extract here :
>A key finding of the FREE study was that the contact experience for most people, contrary to popular movie accounts of unpleasant “abductions” and medical experiments, was predominantly positive (Figure 3). This finding is consistent across almost all country samples, with roughly two-thirds of respondents of the four largest country samples reporting “Highly Positive” or “Slightly Positive” life changes resulting from contact. The number and percentage of subjects by race/ethnicity responding to this same question indicated that for all racial/ethnic categories and combinations, all were in the range of 61–86% positive in their rating of the positivity of impact of CE upon their life. Approximately one-half to three-quarters (50–84%) of the subjects for each age category shown, reported their CE as “Mainly Positive” as a function of age. There was a slight increase in reported positivity as age increased from 18 to 24 (50%; N = 66), 25 to 54 (61%; N = 942), to 55 and older (78%; N = 669). The reported CE also had a similar effect on changing one’s life by gender. For instance, 66% (N = 1,016) of females and 62% (N = 729) males claimed to have been changed in a “positive” way, whereas only 13% females and 12% males considered their CE as changing their life in a “negative way.”
Some more resources here :
[A Greater Reality website](https://agreaterreality.com/) and [Free PDFs of CCRI Books ](https://www.ufob.io/s/gimacLc7tYib2pB)
I do recommend giving the lecture a watch. Rey presents this well.
Here is another talk he gave at Rice University [Archives of the Impossible conference | Flash Talk: Rey Hernandez - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53NjtNto46w)