CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT Mission Rama: The most important contactee network of the 20th Century Joseph Burkes MD 2009, revised 2014 In 1993 the American Public Health Association (APHA) held its annual meeting in San Francisco. I was particularly eager to go to the Bay Area because I had learned that a network of contactees known as Mission Rama had an active working group there. Rama is an international organization of contact workers that was established in Lima, Peru in 1974. Rama’s initial activities involved the ET contacts of a young man by the name of Sixto Paz Wells. When I first spoke to Rama activists in 1993 I was told that their group had facilitated over 25,000 individual human encounters with non-human intelligence of a presumed extraterrestrial nature, the type of experience that Dr. Greer decades later designated as “CE-5s,” Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind. SIXTO PAZ WELLS WAS ONE OF MANY PROMINENT CONTACT ACTIVISTS Prior to traveling to the APHA meeting in San Francisco, I read several magazine articles outlining the exploits of Rama. Although the stories focused on Sixto Paz Wells’ leadership role, I was soon to learn that Rama’s continuing success relied on the efforts of scores of talented Latin American contactees from many countries. Most of them were recruited into the Rama contact network as young people in their 20s and early 30s. Rama leaders were not only well versed in advanced meditation techniques, but also possessed impressive psychic abilities. THOUSANDS OF HUMAN INITIATED CONTACT EXPERIENCES During the mid 1970s many published accounts in the Spanish language media served to promote Mission Rama’s campaign across Latin America. Through emigration of Rama activists to Europe and North America, their project spread around the world. Given this international dimension to their work going on for many decades, I strongly suspect that the 1993 figure of 25,000 encounters would now be a gross underestimate of their track record. A more accurate current figure would be in the hundreds of thousands of individual human encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence. BACKGROUND IN SOLIDARITY WORK IN LATIN AMERICA Throughout my youth I had an interest in Latin American affairs. I grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Manhattan and learned Spanish in high school. Later in no small part due to the influence of my leftist mother, I did international solidarity work with the peace and social justice movements during the 1960s and 1970s. When I was 19 years old I spent 2 months in Mexico and Guatemala. During that year the Mexican student movement was on the defensive and was still reeling from the massacre in Mexico City that occurred during the 1968 Olympics. In one bloody encounter, hundreds of anti-government demonstrators were gunned down by the Mexican military at Tlalteloco, in the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Given my participation in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War student movements back at home, I was very sympathetic to the leftwing causes of Latin American youth who I believed were also struggling for social justice. My background in Latin American activism and the UFO phenomenon made me eager to meet a Peruvian leader of Rama while visiting in San Francisco. For 20 years I called him Dr. Ricardo, a pseudonym. In 2014 he gave me permission to use his true name, Dr Fernando Limaco. He is a retired dental surgeon and back in 1993 he agreed to stop by the CSETI booth that I rented at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. Given the audacity of setting up a UFO table at a large health professional meeting, I anticipated that he might decline the offer. I was pleasantly surprised when Dr Limaco agreed to join me. MY COLLEAGUE’S STRIKING PHYSICAL APPEARANCE. I shall never forget meeting him for the first time. Short, robust, with copper colored skin, he was the very image of the indigenous people of the Andes. His dark eyes were set deep into his face. When he spoke his eyes shinned with a passionate intensity. I had no doubt that the individual standing before me possessed enormous physical strength and personal determination. We spent the afternoon at the booth chatting in Spanish and English. My new friend witnessed me “working the crowd,” drawing health professionals over to see UFO videos and passing out CSETI literature. I also met with several other members of RAMA who impressed me with their idealism and dedication to the cause of peaceful contacts with non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature. UFO LIBRARY MAGAZINE ARTICLE CHRONICLED RAMA’S BEGINNING I gave Ricardo and his friends a photocopy of an article about Mission Rama that was published in a past issue of the “UFO Library Magazine.” The journal ceased publishing in the early 1990s. I did not have the original magazine in which it had been appeared. The account that follows is based on that article. It displayed no author or publication date on title page. My new Rama friends told me after reading the article that the author was Yolanda Marcino, who at that was the United States Rama President. In addition they affirmed that the narrative accurately corresponded to other written accounts about Sixto Paz Wells and correctly reflected the early history of his organization. Dr Limaco was with Sixto Paz Wells practically from the beginning and had accompanied him on an arduous journey deep into the Andes jungle in 1990 to meet with the ETs in a remote district called Paititi. The following account is based on that UFO Library article. My aim is to inform readers about a little known but important piece of contact movement history. Few articles and even fewer books have been published in English describing the important activities of Mission Rama. In my opinion their decades of contact work has had a significant impact on Latin American awareness of what a growing number of people believe is an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. LIMA PERU JANUARY 1974 In 1974 Sixto Paz Wells was a first year university student in Lima. His father Carlos Paz Garcia had a long-standing interest in the paranormal and metaphysics and was a participant at meetings where the possibility of telepathic communication with extraterrestrials was discussed. Sixto was an avid practitioner of Yoga. He attended a conference with his father where telepathic exercises designed to contact ETs were described. After the meeting Sixto meditated, attempting to serve as a kind of human “antenna.” He hoped to receive a telepathic message from extraterrestrials. FIRST COMMUNICATIONS VIA AUTOMATIC WRITING His efforts were soon rewarded. Using the technique of automatic writing, on January 22, 1974 with his mother and sister in attendance, he started to move his hand across the paper. At first it was just scribbling, but finally contact was made. The message identified its source as coming from an extraterrestrial that called himself “Oxalc.” This being claimed to be residing in an ET base on “Morlen”, a moon of Jupiter known to us as Ganymeade. While carrying out his automatic writing, Sixto described seeing in his mind’s eye a middle-aged man who was sitting at a white desk and was holding his hands on his temples. Sixto could hardly believe what had transpired. Had he really made contact by just asking for it? However he was full of doubts. Without telling Sixto, his mother and sister called some friends and set up a meeting at their home for the following night. Confused and dubious about his capacity to establish contact, Sixto again carried out his relaxation exercises and opened himself up for any possible communication with extraterrestrials. THE CHANNELED ENTITY PUT TO THE TEST Before an audience of mostly young people, Sixto’s automatic writing soon spelled out another message from Oxalc. The alleged ET now proposed a test to prove that the automatic writing was more than just a product of Sixto’s imagination. Oxalc suggested that he be posed a series of questions from the audience. At first Sixto’s friends asked them verbally, with Sixto giving the answers via automatic writing. Latter the questions were posed to Oxalc via telepathy. To everyone’s amazement each question was answered correctly! One skeptic mentally asked Oxalc via Sixto to name the author and title of the book that she was reading. In addition she requested that Oxalt reveal the page she was currently on. The alleged extraterrestrial, communicating through Sixto, not only replied correctly, but also accurately explained to the assembled group what was her opinion concerning the merits of the book. In order to prove that the source of communication was indeed extraterrestrial, it was suggested that Oxalc should give them a time and place where a physical encounter could take place. The immediate reply set the time as 9PM February 7, 1974. The location would be out in the desert some 60 km south of Lima. It was a place known as Chilca. On the appointed night, while waiting in the cool quiet darkness, Sixto and his friends were treated to an encounter that frightened them. A silvery light appeared over a nearby hill that at first was thought to be the moon. By 9PM it became apparent that this was a disc shaped UFO. The object flew towards them and then a shaft of light shot out from the craft illuminating the ground where the witnesses stood. FLYING SAUCER OVERHEAD The UFO appeared to be shaped like a hamburger with a metallic skin. It silently hovered 80 feet overhead. On the upper section of the craft the young people could see six windows. Sixto’s friends were hardly prepared for this momentous occasion. In fact they completely panicked. Sixto, communicating by automatic writing, was told that they would have to learn to control their emotions before further contact could be achieved. The UFO hovered over them for 15 minutes and then started to spin. It suddenly flew away to the west towards the Pacific Ocean and was gone. Thus began the initial encounters of what would soon become an international network of contactees. Although the initial interactions took place in Peru, the movement spread throughout Latin America, and via emigration of Rama activists, to far flung corners of the world. INTERNATIONAL CONTACT NETWORK Learning of these details I was immediately struck by the many similarities between CSETI and Rama. They both took an overwhelming positive view of human-ET interactions. It was and still is their collective hope that peaceful contact will issue forth a new era of enlightened human development. For both groups the principal mode of communication between humans and the alleged ETs is consciousness or mind. Both groups use meditation or relaxation techniques to enhance the consciousness link during attempts at making contact. And most importantly the networks were primarily founded on the contact experiences of one young contactee. For Rama it was Sixto Paz Wells, for CSETI Dr. Steven Greer. There were many philosophical, cultural and organizational differences between the two groups, but their shared features in my opinion reveal the handiwork of an advanced non-human intelligence that is determined to interact with humanity. INTENSE MENTAL PREPARATION FOR CONTACT Following that poorly prepared first encounter in the Peruvian desert, Sixto and his supporters intensively practiced meditation in order to overcome their fears. They approached the contact work in a serious, almost reverent style. The next psychographic (automatic writing) communication contained an important warning. Sixto was told that he should not try to convince others outside of his small team, of the reality of their experience. This prohibition was applied especially to family members. Apparently Sixto chose to ignore the warning and insisted that his father Paz Garcia should be allowed to participate in the upcoming planned encounter. In consultation with the alleged ETs, it was agreed that only Sixto’s father, along with the original group would be permitted to have contact during the next outing. PARTY TURNS TO PANIC IN CHLCA On February 14, 1974 at 6:45 PM, Sixto and his young supporters eagerly awaited contact on a mountaintop in the Chilca region near Lima. His father had told them that he would meet up with the group later. Soon a large 150-meter craft approached in the sky, but instead of just their father being present, several vehicles appeared moving down a mountain road near their site. Sixto and his brother rushed to investigate. To their dismay and in violation of the agreed plan, Sixto and Carlos discovered that their father had invited some of his friends to join them in the desert. These individuals were now actively conducting their own contact efforts in a party like atmosphere. Some individuals were clearly intoxicated having brought with them several cases of beer. Others were attempting to make contact by holding hands and using a trance medium approach. Soon two small UFOs descended upon the group of partiers. Once again panic ensued. This time the terrified merrymakers knocked over tables and chairs while charging into their tents and cars to hide. For Sixto it was a humiliating disaster. The huge craft that they had first sighted in the distance slowly flew over the group at a height of less than 50 meters. After this incident, Paz Garcia’s friends were described as being in a state of shock. IMPOSING HUMAN PRIORITIES NOT A SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY The fiasco however was highly instructive for these young Peruvian contact workers. Instead of blaming Sixto’s father, they looked into themselves. Sixto’s group attempted to understand how perhaps their own faults had contributed to the chaos at Chilca. They had attempted to impose on the ETs their human priorities, their need to convince others, despite being cautioned against such a course by their extraterrestrial contact. Sixto’s team continued their spiritual work and chose to consider the ETs as friends and called them “elder brothers” or “guides.” In preparation for more contact, Sixto’s team was instructed to modify their diet with an emphasis on fruits and vegetables, eliminating all meat. The contact team was to be limited to no more than seven individuals, the original group. On a cloudless night during the first week of July 1974 they went out into the Chilca desert. Their destination was a place called La Mina, (the mine) some twenty minutes walking distance from their jumping off point. While slowly trudging along in deep windswept sand, Sixto in the darkness somehow became separated from his companions. After walking for what seemed like only a few minutes, he suddenly found himself at La Mina without knowing how he could have arrived so quickly. Sixto saw a strange luminescence in the distance. Thinking that it might be his friends’ lantern, he walked towards it. As he approached the eerie light he noted that it was on the ground and took the form of a half moon. As he closed in, suddenly the figure of a man with his arm raised came out of the light. Frightened and confused Sixto tried to run, but a strange paralysis overtook him. INTER-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL AWAITED SIXTO Telepathically he received the simple command, “Come!” Managing to control his fear, he stepped into the light. Sixto immediately experienced vertigo and nausea. His forehead and neck were gripped with a strong pressure and heat flowed through his entire body that suddenly felt much lighter. Engulfed in brilliant light he was still able to see before him the very extraterrestrial that he had envisioned the previous January. Oxalc was tall, about 6 feet 2 inches in height, with oriental features. He had whitish-blond thin hair, which flowed down to his broad shoulders. The ET explained to him that they had entered an inter-dimensional portal where their atomic structure was converted to light energy and thereby could be transported rapidly over enormous distances. ET BASE ON A MOON OF JUPITER Sixto emerged from the portal and found that he was no longer in the Peruvian desert. Instead he could see mountains in the distance that cradled a city composed of transparent domes and igloo like structures. They were on Morlen, the ET name for Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. Oxalc oriented his visitor to the situation. Sixto was told that this base had been established as a mining colony thousands of years ago. Their civilization hailed from the star systems known to us as Betelgeuse and Rigel of the constellation Orion. The atmosphere had been modified to allow them to move around without space suits. A type of solar energy was supplied as well to allow trees and vegetables to grow in the many valleys that were colonized. A council of respected elders working for “The Great Confederation of Stars” ruled Morlen. Their goal was to give generous assistance to all worlds in evolution. In this idyllic setting Sixto was told that individual colonists could experience personal growth without prejudice or vice. This ET civilization was not only technologically advanced, but according to Oxalc had achieved an advanced state of spiritual development. UTOPIA ON GANYMEADE Sixto was given a description of life on Morlen. The colonists all worked about 4 hours per day. Supply houses took the place of stores. People simply took what they wanted. There was no mention of money. Sixto was told that their food was composed of plant extracts that had little taste but met all bodily needs. Reportedly there were close to a million people living there dispersed into a few cities. At the end of his tour Sixto was taken to a place where he was able to view images from his past drawn from his own memory. He witnessed a very special event that occurred in 1966. While walking to school he saw a circular shadow on the ground, presumably made by an ET craft. A wave of heat and a strange sound had frightened him; instead of fleeing he had suddenly become paralyzed. SIXTO WAS SHOWN IMAGES FROM HIS PAST Sixto also recalled being shown images that were supposed to reflect his future in which he played a leadership role in a worldwide contact movement. He saw himself appearing on television, giving newspaper interviews and experiencing the emotional turmoil that comes from being a leader. In that future he would face heavy responsibilities, and experience great fellowship as well as betrayal. In parting Oxalc reassured Sixto that he would only retain those memories that would support him in his future mission. With tears in his eyes Sixto envisioned a bright and positive future for humanity. Feeling exhausted and peaceful at the same time, Sixto reentered the inter-dimensional portal and found himself back in the Peruvian desert at La Mina. He reported to his companions not knowing how long he had been on Morlen, and it seemed much longer than the fifteen minutes that had elapsed on Earth. VEGETARIANISM AND MENTAL EXERCISES PREPARED THEM FOR MORE CONTACT His friends questioned him about the strange light that they had seen; they wanted to know where he had been. Sixto told them that they too would have a similar experience in 2 weeks and that they must prepare themselves by meditating, eating a vegetarian diet and by doing certain prescribed “concentration” exercises. Two weeks later Sixto and his team returned to the designated contact site at La Mina. A banana shaped UFO was seen and seven youths entered the inter-dimensional portal. They felt a kind of weightlessness and found themselves in an enormous auditorium. They were led to believe that this was the meeting place of an interstellar council known as “the Twenty four Elders.” The ceiling was a colossal cupola covered with symbols that included the Star of David and an image of a trident. On both sides of the hall were ideograms that appeared similar to Chinese writing. Seated in the council chairs were an assortment of beings, many of who appeared to be non-human. The Elders stood one by one and communicated to Sixto’s group telepathically on philosophical themes, including the ETs’ concept of God; what death is; and their unfolding plan to create a “new humanity” on Earth. Sixto and his followers were instructed to carry out a mission under the title of “Rama”, meaning Sun on Earth. They were to be teachers, who if sufficiently dedicated, would help prepare humanity for a dramatic spiritual transformation. The ongoing communication with the extraterrestrials was to continue as it had started via automatic writing. With this description the UFO Library Magazine’s article ended. The initial Peruvian group expanded its numbers in order to meet the enormous challenge of the mission. Latin American and European press coverage served to attract new activists who created an international network of contactees. During the initial years Sixto Paz Wells was the most prominent participant. As the years passed, Rama was rife with internal battles, but despite these challenges the contact work has continued. SIXTO PAZ WELLS’ ROLE DIMINISHED New Age media coverage continued to focus on Sixto. However according Rama activists who quietly were organizing at the grassroots level, his importance diminished. For a number of years he apparently ceased being a “good antennae” in terms of receiving accurate messages. Other leaders, who operated outside of the media glare, continued to attract ET craft to the joy and wonderment of new followers. As a North American representative of what I like to call “the contact movement”, I have been privileged to do fieldwork with Rama. I have kept them informed of the important work of our North American contact networks. About the author: Dr Burkes volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998 when he left CSETI. He has continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with MUFON and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma. Dr Burkes retired from the Southern California Pemanente Group after thirty years service in 2008. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and is licensed to practice in California.
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