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Mysticism and UFO Sightings
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 (CST) by Thoth
 A series of UFO sightings on Tenerife, in the Canary Isles, has UFO investigators scratching their heads and wondering if the Islands’ history holds clues to the current spate of activity. In the last 18 months, at least three different disc shaped UFO’s have been photographed on this small Island off the coast of Africa.
Many in the UFO community will remember Tenerife from the high profile arrests in the late 90’s involving members of what authorities claimed was a semi mystic UFO group. It was falsely claimed that the group went by the names Centro Sagrado de Isis (Sacred Centre of Isis) and Orden del Santuario Solar (Order of the Solar Shrine).
The group was lead by German psychologist Dr. Heide Fittkau-Garthe, a divorcee in her late 50’s who had no previous involvement with cults but who had studied eastern mysticism in some depth and through that study seems to have become interested in communication with extraterrestrial life forms and their ability to visit Earth.
According to
official reports, the group had allegedly been planning a trip to the
summit of Tenerife’s Mount Teide, where they planned to make contact
with a visiting spacecraft.
If the planned meeting with
extraterrestrial visitors failed, police claimed that a suicide pact
had been drawn up along the lines of that undertaken by the infamous
Heavens Gate cult. It was an easy parallel to draw and one that would
ensure public opinion was hostile towards the group’s leader. The
police claimed that the group’s 32 members had been brainwashed by the
psychologist and used this to explain why none of them would confirm
their suspicions or implicate Dr. Fittkau-Garthe in any wrong doing.
One police officer claimed that each member would have to be
‘deprogrammed’ before they could provide the police with evidence to
substantiate the allegations! Despite this lack of evidence, the
psychologist was charged with incitement of suicide and attempted
murder and the group was dissolved. There were murmurs throughout both
the UFO and esoteric community that the group’s motives has been either
misunderstood or ‘sexed up’ in a bid to discredit them; even anti cult
groups seemed dubious about the validity of the authorities’ claims.
Dr. Fittkau-Garthe
maintained her innocence, claiming that the authorities had concocted
the links to The Sacred Centre of Isis and Order of the Solar Shrine.
Her claims were later borne out by experts familiar with the workings
of the two groups. Many feared that Dr Fittkau-Garthe would become
another ‘John Ford’, an innocent person locked up because of the threat
they posed to the establishment.
 Exactly what happened to
Dr. Fittkau-Gathe remains a mystery to the present day. Eight years
later, it’s as though she disappeared off the face of the Earth. There
is scant evidence of an actual trial having taken place, neither is
there anything to say that she was released from custody. The strange
case of the UFO group attempting to rendezvous with a UFO went from
making world headlines to a complete news blackout in the space of
seven days. Dr Fittkau-Garthe, psychologist, mystic and ufologist, last
seen in the custody of Spanish police simply vanished, leaving many
unanswered questions, one of which must be: Is there a link between
mysticism and extraterrestrial life? It certainly leaves many of us
wondering if it is possible to use our sixth sense to make some form of
contact with alien life and whether there are specific areas on Earth
that act as inter-dimensional ‘star gates’.
Fast forwarding to the
present day, three photographs have emerged between August 2004 and
December 2005, each revealing disc shaped objects in flight in close
proximity to Mount Teide, the mountain that was of so much interest to
Dr Fittkau-Garthe. All three photographs have one thing in common; the
UFOs were only spotted when the images were later reviewed, they were
not observed by the photographer. For disc-like anomalies to appear in
three separate photographs of the area in the space of 18 months is a
little beyond coincidence.
The most recent photograph, below, was taken in December 2005 at Los Gigantes; the cliffs that border one side of Mount Teide.
The picture itself is in
focus but the disc shaped object is blurred and out of focus,
suggesting that whatever it was, was moving at high speed and banking
sharply as it approaches the cliffs. There was no indication of birds,
gliders or anything remotely like a flying saucer in the area – the
skies were clear. Likewise, the windscreen of the vehicle from where
the shot was taken was clean and the dark object didn’t appear on any
other photograph suggesting that the camera was not at fault.
Sceptics will argue that if
it wasn’t visible with the naked eye then more than likely it is a
photographic anomaly. If this was the only anomalous photograph of UFOs
in Tenerife it might have been written off as such, but as we’ve said,
it isn’t the only example of this phenomenon.
In August 2004, Teresa
Badesa Codina, a Managing Director from Barcelona, was on holiday in
Tenerife when she took some photographs of Mount Teide. It was only on
her return home that she discovered one of the photographs (below)
clearly showed a disc shaped UFO. What’s interesting is that this is
the second UFO photograph to feature Mount Teide. Whether Dr
Fittkau-Garthe’s interest in Mount Teide was based on esoteric
understanding or through analysis or contact with extraterrestrials is
impossible to say, but there does seem to be a link between the
mountain and UFO activity.
Source / Credit: UFO Evidence / Teresa Badesa Codina
The third report came to
our attention via Coast to Coast, one of their readers, Mark Paterson,
submitted a photograph (below) that he had taken when he was visiting the
Canary Isles. This photograph clearly shows what appears to be a pair
of disc shaped UFOs. Again, one of the things that Mr Paterson said,
was that he’d never seen the UFOs when taking the photograph.
Quite what makes the Canary
Isles and Tenerife an area that warrants so much UFO activity is
uncertain. The Islands are devoid of military bases and nuclear
installations - although Tenerife does boast one of the largest
alternative / natural energy installations in Europe.
It’s possible that the
attraction is a little less obvious but strangely enough adds another
twist to the story of Dr. Heide Fittkau-Garthe. Tenerife has a long
forgotten and quite extensive pyramid complex, emphasising the possible
link between sacred/ceremonial or mystic sites and UFO activity.
Pyramids and UFO’s
Archaeologists know very
little about the six step pyramids that make up the Guimar complex in
Tenerife. The pyramids are orientated to the east and were constructed
by an unknown people who built them from local black volcanic rock,
presumably in order to worship a sun god.
Dr Fittkau-Garthe was
accused of running a sect dedicated to the sun god and as a resident of
Tenerife, she would have been aware of the existence of these
structures as they were in the news in their own right around that
time. It would be logical to assume that if she really was running a
sect dedicated to a mystic order that worshipped the sun, as was
claimed, the pyramids would have played a significant role in her
plans. The fact that the pyramids were not mentioned, suggests that Dr.
Fittkau-Garthe was telling the truth when she denied had nothing to do
with a cult that worshipped the sun but that her interest lay in Mount
Teide being a meeting point where contact with extraterrestrial craft
could be established.
The pyramid complex on
Tenerife seems to be closely related to the step pyramids of South
America. In the past, researchers have suggested that many ancient
people who worshipped Gods in the sky actually worshipped
extraterrestrial visitors. Another suggestion that has been made over
the years is that pyramids and other ‘sacred sites’ act as geographical
markers that can be clearly seen from the air. The theory is that the
network of pyramids that span the globe from across Europe, China and
America create a unique aerial ‘road map’ - a navigational aid that
contains hidden messages or signposts for certain extraterrestrial
visitors.
Dimensions of Time and Space
Whatever all three
photographers captured, it was there for only a fleeting second. This
has led researchers to wonder if what these photographers have filmed
is the entry or exit point for extraterrestrial craft and whether Dr
Fittkau-Garthe understood about this dimensional ‘stargate’.
In the past, witnesses have
often likened UFO sightings to them disappearing into other dimensions,
this extract is from a sighting reported by Jon Mays of Landing, NJ in
February 10, 2000
“The turning of the object was bizarre in its movement. It did not turn the way aircraft turn.
Then it did only what I can
describe as leaving...it left and went back from whence it came. It
didn't shoot away or disappear...it left. It was more like it
enveloped itself into another dimension. It was gone.”
The relationship or
gateways between dimensions is certainly something that Dr.
Fittkau-Garthe would have been familiar with, as she had studied
esoteric and mystic religion. The borders between the scientific
communities’ understanding of string theory and a multi-dimensional
universe are very close to the mystics’ understanding of a
multi-dimensional reality. Ufologists often cite inter-dimensional
travel as the method by which UFOs reach the Earth. Could it be that Dr
Fittkau-Garthe’s applied knowledge of mysticism gave her an
understanding of the UFO field, of star gates or dimensional portals
that made her a threat to the powers that be? There are many people out
there that claim to have made psychic rather than physical contact with
beings from other worlds. Maybe the time has come to realise that the
study of mysticism could be a valuable tool of the UFO researcher and
not something that is confined to the realm of the spiritual or pseudo
religious.
The alternative that we
shouldn't overlook is that like Mount Shastna, Mount Teide itself is
the main point of focus, is there an alien base deep with the mountain
itself? Or is it the geology of the dormant volcano that is of interest
to them?
Often, the key to the
future lies in understanding the past, the mystery of the cult that
never was could help us understand why we can photograph UFOs in
Tenerife today.
Credits:
UFO Photo at Mt Teide from Ufoevidence.org
UFO Sighting Quotation source
Mark Paterson's UFO sighting report on Coast to Coast
Related Links:
Article: The Lost Pyramids of Guimar
Gallery: Photographs of the pyramid complex.
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Re: Mysticism and UFO Sightings
by FyreSpirit on Friday, January 20, 2006 (CST)
(User Info | Send a Message | Journal) | Wonderful article!!
Is sun worship illegal in Tenerife? I'm not clear on why Dr. Fittkau-Garthe was arrested. |
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