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Excerpt of interview with author James Abbey
By Victoria Smith for Millennium Dreams 07/29/07
Smith: Mr. James Abbey is Author of Beyond Starlight, he has worked as a journalist, writing articles and
short stories. Good Afternoon, and welcome Mr. Abbey.
Abbey: Thank you.
Smith: Please start by telling us how Beyond Starlight came about, you say that the information in the book was
given to you?
Abbey: The book was what I call download channeled.
Smith: How does that differ from channeling?
Abbey: I believe there are distinct differences in the two methods. The conventional channeling that has been
widely used and talked about will have an individual asking one or more “guides” for specific
information, or sage advice etc. This is usually given in a trance like state, although this varies. Download
Channeling is something that I had been doing unknowingly a good part of my life. The difference is
that the information one receives is not over a long period of time through several contact session, but
is imparted to the person/receiver in a few seconds.
Smith: So information that is requested by the receiving party is condensed down to a second or two?
Abbey: No, not exactly, a life time, or often several lifetimes of information is given in that second but the receiving person at that
moment is not aware of the information, in fact it is not always information that has been requested. When this download
has happened to me I felt weighted down by something that I could not see or perceive. I liken it to a large file that
ones computer has downloaded automatically, and the computers owner is unaware of until some point that the file is
opened by the computer and you have a new program that unfolds on your screen.
Smith: So to be clear, this information is not available to the receiving person at the moment it being transferred?
Abbey: Correct, in fact it could be carried for some time by the person before the downloaded information is opened to the host.
In my case the time delay has been as little as a few hours to several years. I believe there are some protective mechanism at
play here to protect one’s mind, or possibly we don’t have the development to receive this large of downloads and open
them up at the same time; it might be too much for the human mind to handle.
Smith: Can you give us some examples of downloads you had?
Abbey: (Laughing) Well you have one in front of you 374 pages of Beyond Starlight. It was totally downloaded to me in an
incident that occurred in Oregon, at a farm house outside of a small rural town. I explain it in the beginning of the book,
a strange encounter with something that my engineering and journalist background had no explanation for. Had I not
been with another person that night that had witnessed the event, I would have shrugged it off as being a dream.
Smith: Some would describe the experience you had as a UFO encounter, is that in line with what you think?
Abbey: Some would see it as that, and certainly there were several witness around Foster Lake that was near to the farm house
where my wife and I lived that did report UFO’s that night. That was what was written up in the local paper that next
day. Others have offered the explanation of time travelers. I believe the story that was downloaded to me that night by a
wanderer from another parallel universe is what happened. His abilities and travel means could certainly account for
the lighted objects in the sky over the Lake. If the story he left me with is true, then his traveling over here to this universe
string and passing a great amount of time both forward and backwards in time would truly make him a time traveler.
Smith: Besides what’s chronicled in the book, you said there were other events, downloads that you received, can you elaborate?
Also has there been any downloads that has proven to you that the information given in it is accurate?
Abbey: Yes there has, but I would like to point out that the information download explained in the book was carried
unknowingly by me for almost twenty years until an extreme dramatic moment in my life triggered a release of it from
my subconscious.
Smith: You had no idea such a story had been given to you?
Abbey: No, not at all, later it was a shock to find such information existed within my thoughts. I felt a weight during that time,
like something was there, but well below the radar.
Smith: And the other events?
Abbey: Well, at one time in my life my work was to maintain some very complex communication gear. In fact I had been asked to
build some large transmitters. The equipment was as large as bus and was way beyond my abilities. I had been put on the
spot as a significant amount of money had been given to do this project. I set out to design and build it, and after a year
the equipment was finished and somewhat to my surprise it worked, for the design seemed to come from elsewhere.
It would fail from time to time and I would set there wondering how to fix it. At night before I fell asleep I would still be
focusing how to repair it, what was wrong I would be asking with no answers. In the morning when I would wake up in
my mind there would be the answer. Not easy answers mind you, but complex reworking of the circuits that would
require hours if not days to accomplish. My co-workers got use to this, and when something broke down they simply
patted me on the back and said sleep on it you will have the answer in the morning. In the morning I would have the
circuit modifications, they would just be there and I would go about making the changes.
Smith: And it worked?
Abbey: Yes, every time.
Smith: All this time you carried the download from Jonathan, the visitor from a sister universe?
Abbey: Sister Universe, is probably a better way to describe it since there and here does not follow that same exact historical path.
This brings up another confirmation for me regarding the validity of download channeling. In 2003 I started writing
Beyond Starlight after a stressful event in my life opened up the story. That year the first seven chapters were completed
including the one where Jonathan and Kata are preparing for the launch of the Sunchaser. The area where they live is in
Guanacaste, Costa Rica, at the Franklin Chang Diaz space port near Liberia. The time in the book is somewhat tilted into
our future about thirty years. At the time this was downloaded to me, Franklin Chan Diaz, whom I never met was an
astronaut with NASA, I did not know more then that at the time. The download described the launch facility named after
him located in Guanacaste. Well I finished the book in 2006 and a few months later the newspapers in Costa Rica were
announcing that Franklin Chan Diaz was retiring from NASA in order to build a test rocket facility in Guanacaste.
That announcement came some two and half years after the chapter describing it was written, and to be clear Franklin
had not seen the manuscript.
Smith: That must have been an interesting surprise to you?
Abbey: It was, and a confirmation that some events here and in Jonathan’s universe have similar paths.
Smith: The book hints at many parallel worlds or universes.
Abbey: Well, there are many scientists that ponder just how many dimensions that exist and have discussed the possibility that our
universe was birthed by another and has given birth too many others. From the downloads, I get the feeling that
besides the sister universe of Jonathan’s there are an infinite number that exist. Perhaps as many as stars that exist in our
corner of the Multiverse. I think our perspective is rather limited right now, but will grow just as our understanding
of how big the universe is has grown.
Smith: Regarding the appearance of Jonathan, what did he look like? Would he be easily identified as some sort of an ET?
Abbey: Well he had the same features and general proportions as you are I with the exception of the skin. It was like a liquid
mirror had been poured over him, all over him. Even the hair, eyes the mouth, it was total. Of course the download
provided some understanding of this, describing how Jonathan, Kata and Max started out looking like us with a variety of
skin colors before their encounter with the self replicating probe.
Smith: The book is not clear wither the changes made to them was in their DNA or if their thoughts, and their identities had been
placed in some kind of robots, so which is it?
Abbey: Maybe neither, Jonathan seemed uncertain of this. At one point in the story he and Kata questioned if they are still alive,
or if they are still themselves. Are they cloned copies of the original Kata and Jonathan that are now highly modified?
There is a good deal of discussion and thought regarding this. Near the end of the download of the first book Kata gives
max a small silver capsule when she sees he is dying. The capsule is filled with bio-mechanical Nanoids. That saves
him and it sounds like the bio-mechanical nanoid world rebuilds him. But did they, or did he die and they, the nanoids
rebuild the form, improving on it with the Builder installing the Id or thoughts and personality of Max into the new body.
I have pondered this idea of what is human, and what it is to be more then human and what does it all mean. In the end
Kata, Jonathan and Max seem to come to accept who and what they are, and that there is more important things to focus on
happening around them.
Smith: Beyond Starlight also touches on what exists in the void at the edge of our universe, can you describe that part of the book?
Abbey: Is it not funny how we always assume dark places in our lives are empty, but when we really look at them closely and feel
around in them we find lots of things. In one part of the book I relate how Kata and Jonathan are moved to a planet that has
its star so remote from our universe that the night sky it is filled with darkness, but a place where Jonathan senses something
in the dark void.
Smith: But he and Kata leave the planet before discovering what it is?
Abbey: That’s true, but later in the second download Jonathan relates a little more about the void.
Smith: That’s covered in new book Genesis Point?
Abbey: Yes.
Smith: Can you describe what the Genesis Point is?
Abbey: Yes, we were just talking about interconnected universes; the genesis points are the back doors between universes.
They are located at the entry point or beginning point of our universe.
Smith: Is it a kind of star gate then?
Abbey: No, not really, star gates would be constructs that did not occur naturally, but were made by emerging star faring
civilizations…….
Smith: But in the book it sounds like the genesis points were made by a very advanced race?
Abbey: Well that’s true in part, but the genesis point, or more precisely genesis points, is a natural byproduct of the big bang or
several big bangs. It existed before being found and used by the Architects, who having discovered them merely
added some amenities like the grids to help navigate to the many other dimensional universes.
Smith: Lets talk about ET’s, in Beyond Starlight you describe a mechanism that blocks the possibility of hearing signals from other
galactic civilizations, what is that about?.
Abbey: Early on in the book there is a discussion between Jonathan, his uncle and Kata about extraterrestrial signals being .....
……well, covered up by the entities called Watchers, I guess that would be the best way to describe it. I really don’t
claim to know the science behind this, other than what was described to me in the download. It is a way of presenting a
signal out of phase and of equal amplitude that cancels out totally another signal. As it was described to Kata …it’s like
two waves in the ocean of equal strength or height slamming into one another and canceling each other out.
This action would block any signals from being intercepted, and in a way that makes such a cover up undetected.
Smith: And these Watchers, positioned on the outskirts of Jonathan’s star system perform this action, why?
Abbey: In doing this they take away the strongest evidence of life in the cosmos. I think this is done to allow Jonathan’s world
time to mature on its own.
Smith: We don’t seem to catch any extra terrestrial signals here at our SETI sites is it possible……
Abbey: Is it possible that Watchers exists here as well, but nothing in the download told of that, but of course it could very
well be the case.
Smith: Is there more download channeling on the way, will you be heading back to Lake Arenal?
Abbey: That has already taken place, it is just a matter of time that I type it out, it seems to be an ongoing process
and yes, I continue to return to the cabin at the lake.
Smith: Anything you would like to add?
Abbey: More information is on the website www.beyond-starlight.com. Information is added
to the site each week. I invite everyone to check it out and to email me at
james.abbey@beyond-starlight.com