dimensional windows. When I asked if they ever caught one, he replied that he wasn't sure because that kind of information would be classified at the highest level. I found this an interesting comment, and related it to a similar incident of a few years earlier in Pine Bush, New York, where numerous residents had reported a considerable amount of military activity in that area. The military's official explanation was that they were doing "training exercises," but a past associate of mine who is now in intelligence informed me of a different purpose. According to my associate, the military was supporting an operation being undertaken by a special unit to capture an "interdimensional alien" using a portal in that area of the country to enter and leave our world. The main objective of this operation was capturing its technology.'
I asked His Excellency for a source of more information about
the djinn and he instructed me to read the Qur'an. He turned to
Jack, said something in Arabic, and then looked at me once again,
and said, "This conversation is over." His Excellency then spoke
with a number of his other guests. Jack knew I wanted to ask more
and before I opened my mouth he elbowed me in the ribs quite
hard. This I took as a very strong hint to keep my mouth shutmy conversation time with His Excellency was over.
After dinner I asked Jack what the prince's cousin had said to
him. Jack told me he was instructed to take me to a mosque at the
edge of the city to meet a holy man who knew everything about the
djinn. I was thrilled and asked when we could go. Jack responded
that the trip could be made in the morning, but he would not be
going and would send his assistant, the captain who picked me up
at the airport. A car then pulled up and took me back to the villa.
Visit with the Holy Man
Morning came too soon, and I was again awakened with a knock
on my door. It was the captain. He said that we must leave immediately and asked me to dress in the more traditional clothes of the
Saudi people in order to attract less attention. He told me that the
area of the city we would be visiting was not safe for westerners. I
dressed as he instructed and found the clothing quite comfortable,
made of the finest Egyptian cotton. I looked like someone who
had just stepped out of Lawrence ofArabia.
It took us about a half hour to reach our destination: a rundown part of the city inhabited by people who were quite poor.
We pulled up in front of a building the captain said was more than
three hundred years old and a former worship center of some sort.
We were greeted at the door and taken into a room where a very
old man was sitting smoking a water pipe. The captain bowed and
started speaking in Arabic. He turned to me and said, "Please sit down. I will translate. You may ask any questions about the djinn
but nothing more. Also, you will only get one response to each
question. Do not get into a discussion with him." I was taken
aback. I regretted not preparing a list of questions since my knowledge of the djinn at that time was limited only to what most westerners knew. I had no tape recorder, but it didn't matter, anyway,
because tape recording was not allowed. I did take notes. Even
though the meeting was more than fifteen years ago, I still remember everything the man said word for word.
A DARK STORY
According to the holy man, Allah created three intelligent races in
the multiverse: Angels, djinn, and physical beings that include humans and all other "alien" races in the universe. Angels were created first, then djinn, who were placed on earth as stewards and
masters. They were most loved by God. The djinn are made of fire,
and have long life spans and great power. They are able to manipulate matter and change form. As a djinni becomes older, it acquires
more knowledge and power. No one knows how long they live, but
like all things, they eventually die and are answerable to Allah at the
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