Dana Howard (contactee)
Dana Howard was one of the mid-1950s contactees who claimed she went to Venus, married a Venusian, and raised a family there.[1]
Contents[hide] |
Biography[edit]
She said she was attending a seance conducted by medium Bertie Lilly Candler on April 29, 1955, when Candler managed to summon up and materialize an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m), blonde woman from Venus.[2][3] She later claimed she went to Venus, married a Venusian, and raised a family on that planet.[1]
Within a year after the original late-1952 contactee claims of George Adamski, spirit mediums, automatic writing, Ouija boards, and trance channeling had become the standard ways to contact and communicate with the wise and friendly Space Brothers. The 8-foot (2.4 m) blonde, named Diane, provided Howard with the material for most of her published books.[citation needed]
Diane's messages had the usual, stereotypical mid-1950s Theosophical content, including techniques for "mastery of the subconscious," remembering past lives, "direct knowing," and "Elimination, Purification, Rejuvenation and Regeneration or Transmuting." Once the human race evolves to the next level, it will be transferred as a "life-stream" to Venus, for further spiritual development.[citation needed]
Publications[edit]
She wrote at least eight books:[4]
- My Flight to Venus (1954)
- Diane: She Came From Venus (1956)
- Over the Threshold (1957)
- The Strange Case of T. Lobsang Rampa (1958)
- Vesta, the Earthborn Venusian (1959)
- Up Rainbow Hill (1959)
- The Keys to the Citadel of Space (1960)
- The Kingdom of Space (1961)
References[edit]
- ^ a b The UFO Controversy in America. Indiana University Press. 1975. ISBN 0-253-19006-1. "Dana Howard went to Venus, married a Venusian, and raised a family — all while she was napping on her living room couch"
- ^ "She came from Venus.". Galactic Server. Retrieved 2009-01-02. "Then-some ten or twelve feet from the draped-off area where Reverend Candler was in deep trance I saw a rising glow of phosphorescence. It was very tall at first, but out of this phosphorescent substance a form began to manifest itself. She was definitely different from the other "spirit" manifestations, a solid, fleshly being, delicate in charm and manner."
- ^ Howard, Dana (1957). Over the Threshold. ISBN 1-4254-8461-1. "At the time of her appearance, the manifested Diane appeared a considerable distance from the draped-off area where Bertie Lilly Candler, nationally famed"
- ^ "The Mystical Contactee Encounters of Dana Howard". UFO digest. Retrieved 2009-01-02. "One was Dana Howard, who wrote about her encounters in My Flight to Venus (1954), Diane: She Came From Venus (1956), Over the Threshold (1957), Vesta, the Earthborn Venusian (1959), as well as others."
External links[edit]
- "Diane of Venus"
- Works by or about Dana Howard in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
 |
This ufo-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
