Ida Kannenberg, the author of
UFO's & The Psychic Factor and
Project Earth, was contacted by a group of Atlantean time travelers in 1940. Born in 1914, Ida was 26 at the time and was married. Ida played a key role in setting up the first Rocky Mountain UFO Conference through the University of Wyoming in the 1980's. Celebrating her 94th birthday in 2008, Ida is a pioneer in UFO research.
Her first contact with a disk-shaped craft began when the car in which Ida was travelling with her husband and three friends stopped on a road in California. Ida's telephatic contacts with the contactors began around 1968 and became regular and consistent around 1978.
The main contactor for about 20 years, from 1978 until 1998, was Hweig. According to Hweig, he was born in Russia in 1845. His mother was an orphan Tsar Nicholas had found on a battlefield. His father was an Atlantean time traveler, which means Hweig was a hybrid with some distinguishing physical anomalies but was entirely human.
At the age of seven, Hweig's mother died and he was rescued from near-disaster by Atlantean time travelers who had maintained a watch over him since birth. He was then reared on a space island constructed by the Atlanteans until the age of 18, at which time he traveled to Sirius to continue his education with the understanding that he would work for the Sirians for 40 years when his education was complete then, ultimately, return to Earth.
The contact with Ida was made after Hweig returned to Earth after completing his education and service with the Sirians. Hweig is a master of the psychic who worked with Ida for over 20 years. Ida's relationship with Hweig is far lengthier and more extensive than mine, and I was introduced to Ida and her work through my own earlier extraterrestrial contacts. After I became acquainted with Ida in late 1990 and early 1991, Hweig began speaking to Ida and me in a three-way relationship. During the early period of three-way communication, Ida and her books served as my safe port. And, as many times happens in ET contacts, early implications of deeper meaning were revealed many years after the fact. Since 2000 communication between Ida and me has been less frequent, but implications of the groundwork first laid in the early 90's are far clearer in 2008 than at the time of the events. Vitally important is that while it is true that Hweig is "ET" by virtue of his training on Sirius and work in the Confederation of Planets, he is entirely human of this Earth.
Hweig set up a three-way relationship with two aging with his typical love of fun. (Ida was 78 and I was 44 in 1992 and serious-minded as aging women can be as the blush of youth fades into memory.) While working at my computer late at night in 1994, I felt the distinct presence of Hweig standing next to my desk. "What is it Hweig?" I asked. "All I have to say is that I've spent 50 years of my life learning about you people, and I don't want you to ever call me boy!" Hweig said. "Call you boy? What are you talking about?" I demanded. Hweig disappeared.
The next day I called Ida and told her that Hweig had been at my house the previous night and told me to never call him boy. "Oh, that explains why he was asking me about something that happened with my husband," Ida said.
Ida's husband had had an explosive encounter with a Black man decades earlier when her husband had absent mindedly called the Black man "boy". Her husband had not realized the sentiment associated with the term "boy" when he used it with the Black man, who was actually a young man.
The day before he came to my house to tell me to never call him "boy", Hweig had asked Ida why the Black man had gotten so upset over being called "boy". Ida had explained the social implications to Hweig, and he had immediately told me to never call him "boy".
Several possibilities seem obvious in Hweig's discussion with Ida about the term "boy" and his subsequent visit to me. On the surface, Hweig might have been testing out the reaction to calling a grown man "boy". The comment reflected back to me the enormous level of cultural minutae that inundates our lives and the way Hweig might be seen by us regardless of his age and training. Hweig undoubtedly knew I would call Ida with news about Hweig, because Ida and I often compared notes about Hweig at that time, and that was one way he let us both know we were talking to him at the same time.
Hweig dictated to Ida his autobiography, A Son Of Old Atlantis, and it was published in 2007. On the face of it, Hweig's autobiography portrays his beginnings and growth from his own viewpoint in a light-hearted spirit of storytelling that is typical of my personal interactions with him independently of Ida. Hweig has a tremendous sense of humor and his jokes offered in the privacy of my home, sometimes at the break of dawn, still make me giggle years later. But the points of his colorful stories drive to the core of the basic quandries of extraterrestrial contact with which both experiencers and onlookers at the sideline must grapple. Hweig explains in several passages that years, dates and measures on other planets are vastly different than those of Earth, but he translates them into familiar Earth measures for the benefit of the reader. Traveling to Sirius at the age of 18 to begin his education on another planet, he must contend with vastly different terms and values than those familiar to him among the Atlantean survivors. One of the objectives of his education on Sirius is psychic development, for which he has both a strong interest and some talent. He and Rasha, another visitor on Sirius from India on Earth, undertake a venture to journey back to Atlantis by way of soul travel. This required them to leave their physical bodies on Sirius and journey through time using only the soul body. This required planning and skill organized with other associates who remained on Sirius. Once in Atlantis his questions about Atlantis were answered in direct experience. He was no longer depended on answers and suppositions that other people provided to him. He was a direct experiencer through his own effort, skill and knowledge. As a questioner relying on the experience and knowledge of others, Hweig became privy to knowledge and skill through his own effort taken at some risk, but once privy to his own knowledge the young boy of 18 grew into a mature man capable of fulfilliing his own destiny, even if in the employ of others who had sponsored his education. He retired from active service in 1990, which was the period when my contact with him began. My contact with Hweig included lengthy examination of time. What is time? How does it work? These are questions he asks in his autobiography but does not examine in length except to illustrate that time as we perceive it on Earth is very different than we think it is. Hweig's continual reckoning of time in familiar terms drives to the bedrock of the Earth's sciences at this time but is rarely recognized for what it is.
I will close this Atlantean Story with a little story of about Hweig. When writing about the TimeStar around 1994 I had stayed up very late one night to work on the bibliography. I had listed references and authors as I located them and planned to put them in alphabetical order later. I awoke a few sleepy hours after going to bed to hear Hweig laughing. "What's so funny?" I asked.
"I never thought I would be listed 52nd on a list with Wallace Black Elk!"
This was a chance to double check Hweig, because the references had been listed randomly and had not counted or alphabetized them. The temptation to check Hweig's facts was strong enough to pull me out of a comfortable sleep, and I pulled out the bibliography and started counting. Sure enough! Hweig's name 52nd of about 60 on the draft, and was one of the last ones I added. I had told Hweig early in our contact that I would not believe anything I had not personally found to be true for myself. And, although I always checked data he offered to find out how it worked into my own knowledge, Hweig had been key in pointing out the nature of time which was the basis of The Once & Future Earth as it relates to the Mayan model of time.
Native American shaman, Wallace Black Elk, had also been key in some ways. The entirety of his education was mentoring by Lakota elders in the ways of shamanism and had no formal education. He could read and write only the most rudimentary English. Yet, I had learned a lot about time and space from Wallace Black Elk that can be taught only in direct experience. At a Sundance I once sat on the tailgate of a station wagon with him and asked what he meant when he talked about the little people. How little were they? Grandfather Wallace gave me a long look of surprise then picked up a stick from the ground and threw it several feet away.
"Is that stick five years or five feet away?" His question pierced to the heart of perception.
Hweig's selection of Wallace Black Elk for comparison from the many names on the bibliography spoke a regard for one of the last inheritors of the old ways of Native American shamanism with ancient ties to Sirius. And, by the way, Wallace Black Elk and I also spoke about the origins from Siriuis of people on this Earth.