Channelling and the New Age account of other worlds

Introduction

Some modern spiritual movements teach that beings from distant stars have spoken to chosen people for thousands of years. They say these beings reveal who made us, why we are here and who secretly rules the world. In the version this episode examines, benevolent beings from the Pleiades and Sirius oppose cold, reptilian beings called the Anunnaki. Humanity is caught between them, and religions are cast as tools of control.

The seventh episode of al-Sabeel's series treats this story as more than an internet conspiracy theory. Ahmad Dadoosh's central argument is theological: the story is a message delivered by devils to the people they choose. This article follows his sequence and separates three things: what the channellers wrote, what the presenter concludes about its source, and what independent records can confirm.^[1][2]

The Pleiades and Sirius

The Pleiades are a bright star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Several of its stars are visible to the naked eye, and the cluster appears in the star lore of many peoples.^[3] In Arabic it is al-Thurayya. The episode notes its place in Arab proverbs and rain-star traditions. Those lexical details still need checking in the classical dictionaries.^[4]

Sirius, al-Shi‘ra, appears by name in the Qur'an: “And He alone is the Lord of Sirius.” The verse comes in a surah named al-Najm, “The Star.”^[5] Al-Baghawi explains that the Khuza‘a tribe worshipped this star, a practice attributed to a man called Abu Kabsha. The verse answers that worship by declaring Allah the Lord of the star.^[6]

The presenter then surveys star lore elsewhere. Babylonian astronomy called the Pleiades MUL.MUL and associated the cluster with the Sebitti, seven warrior gods. In some texts the Sebitti protect people, and in others they serve a god of plague; the episode mentions only the protective role.^[7] Greek myth made the Pleiades daughters of Atlas.^[8] A Kiowa and Lakota tradition tells of girls chased by a great bear and saved on a rock that rose into the sky. The rock is Wyoming's Devils Tower, and the girls became the Pleiades.^[9]

Dadoosh finds it striking that these stars recur across so many cultures, and he suggests the pattern points to a shared source.^[10] A careful reader should keep that suggestion separate from the evidence. Widespread star lore is well documented. No inspected survey shows that every people held these stars sacred, or that similar myths share one origin.^[11] The episode's claim that the entire Maya calendar was built on the Pleiades has not been substantiated, so it is not repeated here.^[12]

The Pleiades story of the 1970s

The modern story begins with the Swiss contactee Eduard “Billy” Meier. He said that in 1975 he met a woman from the Pleiades and later circulated photographs of spacecraft. His photographs have been widely described as fabricated, and his former wife said they showed models.^[13]

The ideas were developed further by Barbara Hand Clow, an astrologer. With her husband Gerry Clow, she founded the publishing house Bear & Company in Santa Fe in the early 1980s, and it became an important New Age publisher.^[14] Her early books include Eye of the Centaur (1986).^[15] Her 1989 book Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades is the one the episode presents as the foundation of the Pleiadian school.^[16]

Before summarizing that cosmology, Dadoosh places astrology in its Islamic context. A report from Ibn Abbas states: “Whoever acquires knowledge of the stars acquires a branch of magic.”^[17] Scholars distinguish this forbidden astrology, which claims to know events Allah has kept unseen, from using the stars for time, direction and the qibla. The presenter adds his own view that astrology, like magic, is not pure fantasy even though it is forbidden and cannot reveal the future.^[18]

The cosmology in outline

As the episode summarizes it, the universe has nine dimensions. The highest is a divine “Christos” energy at the centre of the galaxy and in the Sun. Pleiadians live in a fifth dimension of love and light, and Sirians in a sixth dimension of cosmic geometry. Together they made Earth, the third dimension, as a “living library.” The first humans supposedly carried twelve strands of DNA.^[19]

In this account Lucifer is a Sirian being who descended with good intentions and damaged Earth's energy. The fall of Adam and Eve becomes the moment a whole generation first became aware of itself.^[20] Cold beings from a planet called Nibiru then arrived, reduced human DNA to two strands, and built a “matrix” of religions, economies and politics. They also surrounded the planet with a fence of frequencies. The story identifies these beings with the Anunnaki.^[21]

Two independent checks show how the story borrows real names. DNA is a double helix of two strands, and there is no evidence that humans once had twelve.^[22] The Anunnaki of Mesopotamian texts were gods believed to decree fates, and they were depicted in human form. The reading of them as extraterrestrials from Nibiru goes back to modern writers, especially Zecharia Sitchin, whose work historians reject as pseudoarchaeology.^[23]

The narrative then moves through Atlantis, an archive rescued to Egypt and pyramids said to beam energy to the Pleiades.^[24] It recasts the prophets as “star-seeds” trained in secret schools. Moses is deceived by an Anunnaki being posing as God, and Jesus and Muhammad ﷺ are made cosmic beings from the highest dimension.^[25] The Kaaba and the Black Stone become energy devices, and circumambulation becomes a column of light directed at the stars.^[26] At the story's end Lucifer is released once humanity accepts this account, and the Anunnaki turn out to have come for Earth's gold.^[27]

For a Muslim, these are not neutral alternative interpretations. They make created beings into the source of revelation, replace Allah's prophets with trainees of esoteric schools and empty the rites of worship of their meaning. Dadoosh sees the story's ability to reinterpret every religion as the work of devils well versed in human history.^[28] He also notes an inconsistency: the story calls the law of Moses a tool of enslavement yet praises Muhammad ﷺ, whose law shares many of the same prohibitions. He takes this as a sign that the story's authors knew little about Islam.^[29]

The spiritual medium Barbara Marciniak

In 1992 a second channeller, the American Barbara Marciniak, brought a similar message to a wider audience. She says Pleiadian beings began speaking to her in 1988 during travels in Greece and Egypt.^[30] Bear & Company published her Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians (1992), which is presented as the transcript of long channelling sessions.^[31]

Her version keeps the main outline but changes details. The Anunnaki become reptilian beings, and their arrival is moved from 450,000 to about 300,000 years ago.^[32] That later figure echoes the age scientists give for Homo sapiens, but the match does not support the story itself.^[33] The passages the episode translates say that the beings humans called God were extraterrestrial energies far from the true Creator. They also describe humanity as herded like sheep by those who think they own it.^[34]

The book also teaches about sexuality. It says religions made desire shameful so that people could be controlled, and that ecstasy reconnects a person to a divine source.^[35] In Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library (1994), Earth is presented as a goddess. The episode reports that the book describes reptilian controllers feeding on human fear and hidden reptilians ruling nations and banks.^[36] The same book invites readers to imagine ways of creating life beyond two parents of different sexes. Dadoosh reads this as part of a broader rejection of the traditional family.^[37]

Family of Light (1998) described 1987 to 2012 as a closing window of accelerated spiritual energy, after which those who believed would lead a new era.^[38] When 21 December 2012 passed without the expected change, adherents reframed it as a turning point. Since then, financial crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and wars have all been read as confirmation.^[39][40] A book that no event can disprove cannot be tested.

Dadoosh's explanation is that the devils play both sides. They tell one audience that hidden elites are Anunnaki, and they tell others a different story, so that everyone ends up misled.^[41] Marciniak's later book Path of Empowerment (2004) largely restated these ideas.^[42] The episode also mentions her paid online sessions and a quarterly journal, The Pleiadian Times; its details remain to be checked.^[43][44]

The SpiritWeb portal

Before social media, the Swiss programmer René K. Müller founded SpiritWeb.org in 1994. By his own account it had become the largest spiritual website by 2001, with more than 3,000 articles. As it grew, administration consumed his time, and he closed it in 2003, concluding that it was no longer worth continuing.^[45] The episode says the site gave Pleiadian teachings their own section, including Marciniak's texts. That section, and the domain's later history, have not been checked.^[46][47]

The site's introduction, as the presenter translates it, treats established religions as valid for some people. It prefers a spirituality grounded in personal experience over scripture. It also says that beings once called gods, Elohim or angels are now called extraterrestrials.^[48] Dadoosh draws the connection to his earlier episode on aliens: the same deceiving beings were worshipped under many names.^[49] Müller's later writing, he adds, still praises Theosophy, yoga and astrology.^[50]

Fraud or deception?

Many listeners will say these channellers are simply frauds. Dadoosh does not rule out profit-seeking in general. He notes, though, that these figures did not become wealthy, and that charging for books and classes is ordinary in Western religious life.^[51] His point is that deception from the unseen and deception by people are not mutually exclusive. He links the public mission to Blavatsky's claim that ancient secret teachings were now to be published.^[52][53]

Why this is not prophethood

Some Muslims may wonder how to tell these self-described revelations from prophethood. The presenter answers that the channelled messages keep contradicting themselves: dates change, origins are revised, and they make basic errors about history and about religions.^[54]

Prophets, by contrast, came with signs and a law. The Qur'an remains preserved, and it challenges anyone in doubt to produce a single surah like it.^[55] Muslims believe, and the episode affirms, that no established fact contradicts the Qur'an and that the Prophet's ﷺ foretellings came true. A detailed historical survey of that claim lies outside this article.^[56]

The episode closes by noting how these myths change with each age. Once they spoke of star gods, and now they speak of genetics, but Dadoosh sees one deceptive source behind them.^[57] The Muslim response is not fascination with secret knowledge. It is a return to what Allah has revealed, and to Him, the Lord of Sirius and of every star.

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