> From the Great Frater Sar Kaotec:

>
> An important message about how stupid some of this other stuff is and
> probably why it's such a problem:
>

> I think there can be no doubt that the modern image of the Gray is a
> media invention as many researchers have demonstrated.
>

> While there's elemental archetypes that predate these Gray forms in
> some way, notably the Egyptian God Min, who in one form appears as
> large headed midget (though he has an obvious difference too as this
> image shows) www.from-egypt-with-love.com/egyptian-god-min.htm
> This form is believed to be derived from the Phoenician water
> elementals who were carved like this on the bows of ships, some say
> derived from an ancient tribal race, due to ritual head binding in a
> pigmy population (there is a Romany Gypsy version too, which I've
> personally encountered, with a more bulbous head and beady eyes,
> probably derived from a fusion of these entities and the Dwarves}.
> These forms are historically very rare though.
>

> The Dwarves are another deal, a near universal subterreanean fey

> with a big head, small stocky body and often beady eyes, nearly always
> coverered in hair or furry. There are more wizzened, older baldy ones

> in charge, but these normally have beards and are rarely smooth. The
> rare almost completely hairless verson of the latter is usually
> something like Tolkien's Gollum.

>
> But note, all of these have noses, normal coloured skin, ears, normal
> hands and lack the large eyes of the Grays, so the differences are
> greater than the similarities.
>

> The Greys as we know them are derived from late Victorian Science
> Fiction, pioneered by H G Wells
>
> The first describes future mankind:
>

> "Then in the physiology of these children of men, with their expanding
> brains, their great sensitive hands and diminishing bodies, great
> changes were necessarily worked....They are the descendants of man--at
> dinner. Watch them as they hop on their hands--a method of progression
> advocated already by Bjornsen--about the pure white marble floor.
> Great hands they have, enormous brains, soft, liquid, soulful eyes.
> Their whole muscular system, their legs, their abdomens, are
> shrivelled to nothing, a dangling, degraded pendant to their minds."
> The Man of the Year Million H G Wells 1901
>
> The second alien 'moon men':
>
> "...short, grey skinned creatures, with high foreheads, no nose, and
> bulging eyes who walked with a strange gait due to their oddly
> articulated legs" The Selenites from First Men on the Moon, H G Wells
> 1901 (the water elementals were also associated with the Moon so
> archetypal influence may also be active).
>
> Sci Fi creatures after this often merge these features, and were later
> graphically portrayed in comics and magazines.
>
> Note the eyes are completely different.
>
> These sci fi images (of all kinds) greatly influenced UFO sightings.
>
> The main archetype emerged in the Betty and Barney Hill encounter,
> that seemed strangely similar to these Sci Fi images but included the
> wrap around eyes. This was a rare image but became influencial due to
> the 'accurate' star chart shown, identifying the alien homeworld.
>
> Twelve days before this the Outer Limits invented just such a being
>
> www.davidjschow.com/limits/ol_episodes6.html
>
> Things really take off with the CIA's Cold War 'Saucer Down'
> disinformation project, designed to make the Russians think America
> was 'back engineering' alien super technology. The various models for
> the dead aliens were very influenced by the Hill alien report.
>
> UFOlogists created a Grey stereotype from the synthesis of these
> reports, and people started seeing them.
>
> Things really became hot when Spielberg used these images for CE3
>
> After which nearly 75%% of alien reports in America were of Greys, with
> much less in other countries (such as UK where they are around 10%%).
> Arguably the differences reflect the varied influence of the American
> media.
>
> Some argue that the Sci Fi aspect actually reveals aliens psychically
> or through 'controlled disclosure'. However this last example seems to
> refute that, as its unlikely different types of alien would visit
> different countries.
>
> All this and more is now on Wikipedia by the way....
>
> The Greys have become linked to Abduction, however this is a modern
> paranoid form of an old Fey encounter (which in its magical forms
> often included sex).
>
> This is the clue, as those of us who work with Fey (or any non
> physical being) know that, whether they are controlled hallucination
> or lifeform, they appear according to expectations. Not only
> individual, but also socially mediated, cultural and archetypal. The
> proportion depending on the strength of mind of the operant perciever
> in relation to the strength of their culture and media presense.
>
> The forms they inhabit are basically robotic 'thought forms'
> constructed in our imagination, but it also determines their behaviour
> as well as their appearance. If we expect hostiles we get hostiles, or
> if a media hysteria spreads 'alien invasion' we get 'invaders'.
>
> I've taken part in visualisation encounters in which such Greys are
> very vivid, strong and independent.
>
> Circumstancial evidence and tradition suggests that such robot forms
> can become the bodies of more mysterious formless entities, attracted
> by the form generated according to their nature, and past association
> with such a form, but are also programmed by it, just as we are by our
> own physical brains.
>
> As for Lam, I think he may be Crowley's own elemental contact, perhaps
> even influenced by HG Wells etc. But other evidence suggests the image
> is a fusion of a caracature of Crowley himself merged with the Buddha,
> as some higher being within him, the head contains an abstract tree of
> life if you look carefully, another reason for its shape. But then
> maybe Crowley was saying someting significant here. Curiously Lam is
> the seed sound of the Root Chakra, associated with the domain of
> physical forms by Tantrists.
>
> Kao