"Awakening" by Mary Rodwell is a fascinating book!  It is insightful, factual, detailed and looks at many different aspects of the alien abduction enigma. Those interested in this subject will undoubtedly hail this book as a classic in its own right.

It will take pride of place in countless libraries around the world and will be referred to by scholars of this subject for a long time to come.  It will also comfort many of those who have experienced the abduction phenomena on a first hand basis."

Philip Mantle
Former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association.
Co-Author - "Without Consent"- British Abductions
www.beyondpublications.com

It helped enormously, and thrilled me to learn of people in Australia who were seeing, hearing, speaking and having experiences like I was in the deepest layers of my secret life,--- stuff you seldom voice--not because its crazy, but because its too different, and difficult to communicate.

I found these new connections because of one keen and courageous woman--and a professional too!-- Mary Rodwell. Together, investigators, counsellors and experiencers of the Contact and Encounter phenomenon have been inching along the path of discovery in the flashlightbeam of meticulous and narrow thought.

Awakening is a lantern book. Of course it is--the author is Mary Rodwell.

Dana Redfield, Author
Summoned: Encounters with Alien Intelligence
The ET-human Link: We are the Message
Jonah
Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light
Ezekiel's Chariot

Awakening is an excellent resource book that helps layman, experiencers and professionals attempt to gain an understanding of this increasingly worldwide phenomenon.

Dolores Cannon - Author of:
The Convoluted Universe Book 1
The Custodians Beyond Abduction
Legacy from the Stars
The Legend of Starcrash
Keepers of the Garden
A Soul Remembers Hiroshima
Between Death and Life
They Walked With Jesus
Jesus and The Essenes
Conversations with Nostradamus Books 1, 2 & 3

Mary, I have to compliment you on your integrity and clear vision in presenting this material, as a researcher I am inundated with data from repeat abductions and contacts with the phenomena, and its hard to persist over time without some 'decay' or contamination creeping in, with what we are told.

It is refreshing and welcome to see both your video and written word presented with such clarity.

Ruth Mckinley Hoover
PhD LSCW President of ACCET (Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists)
USA

This isn't just another research book, it is much, much more as it is written by a lady who has hands on contact with the people she writes about. Mary is a trained counsellor who has made it her lifes work to help those who are trying to cope with the many aspects of alien or extraterrestrial Contact. Her professionalism shines through the pages, combined with her compassion and true concern for the people she is trying to help.

Her approach to each case is totally non-sensationalist, looking at all possibilities and explanations, logical, rational and often irrational.  Mary softly challenges the readers' perceptions and many will no doubt find themselves questioning their own views on the realities of this bizarre subject.

Someone once said, with regards to the UFO/Abduction phenomenon, the absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence and how true that statement is!

At last, we have a well written, well researched book which will be of tremendous help to so many, both now and in the future.

Ann Andrews
Author of Abducted

When Mary told me she was going to write her book 2 years ago I was not surprised.    I met Mary back in 1996 at an UFO conference in Brisbane. Mary had travelled all the way from Perth to be there.  I remember her well, her enthusiasm for wanting to give help and support to experiencers was evident even way back then.  But the thing I remember most about Mary was how she presented herself.   She was at all times "professional" which is a rare commodity in this field.

Over the years, Mary, you have driven over many bumps in the road in ufology, but no matter how bumpy the road got, you have always shown integrity and the guts to follow through. Mary, I have to give you credit were credit is due, you have done a wonderful job putting your book together and should be congratulated.  It is truly a wonderful compilation of helpful and informative information.  I only wished you had written it sooner, you could have saved me a lot of time in looking and money (smile).  

From a personal experiencers point of view, I find you have left no rock unturned, no theory passed over, no experience dismissed.  It gives ideas of how the experiencer can help themselves to cope and come to terms with their experience.  It gives advise on how to find the right person for the experiencer to talk to about their experience, be it family, a Ufologist or a therapist.  It is truly a book I could recommend to a person who has had, or is having, a high level of strangeness happening.  Example, Alien contact or an Abduction.

On page 129, you have been brave enough in publishing information which examines the star children phenomenon.  As a magazine editor, I believe it is important to get the information out and allow people to make up their own minds and you have, well done.

I could go on, but I think its best when people read this review they try to get copy. It is a must for anyones' library.  Well done

Diane Harrison
National Director
The Australian UFO Research Network and UFO Hotline.

Australian Skywatch Director
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Hi Mary,

I've just about finished reading your book. I think it is a very comprehensive and illuminating work on the whole subject of 'Contact' - it covers just about every aspect of this etherial branch of the 'UFO Phenomenon' and is valuable as an introduction for the newcomer to this topic OR as a reference resource to experienced researchers !

As a result, it should appeal to a large cross-section of the community - at least to the generally curious and open to learning about many different subjects. So that could keep the sales moving forward on a REGULAR basis, especially as the cover and title will not 'date' as time moves on !

So once again, good luck with the sales because the book DESERVES to do well, simply because it is that good!

Dudley Robb
UFOR NswVirusScan Online

Mary

Yes, it is an excellent resource. The support group chapter was excellent. Leir is right in saying it is the bible for those with contact experiences, but also for those who know people experiencing contact. I found I read about five chapters. It was really easy to read. I loved all the bullet points, easy explanations for things, your depth of thought, questioning and the stories. I liked the chapter with Ellis' story, missing pregnancies, star children and some others. The only negative I have about the book is that there was not enough of it all and I mean that (a compliment). Next book please; perhaps one on regressions - people's stories with descriptions of people's contact experiences and definitely one on star children.

Jacinta Goerke

Mary,

"Awakening" is wonderful!   Reading the contents, I zoomed in on Fear, which is a section I have yet to finish in my course.  At first I thought, Oh no --- all that thinking I've done on it and Mary's gone and written it all first!   I almost didn't look --- thinking I'd better wait, but my curiosity got the better of me and skimmed through to see what you cover. Yeaaah!!! Different things!

It's a wonderful resource----all it's lacking is an index. Isn't there a computer program which can create an index?

It looks to me as though the market has improved for books on abduction---I hope many will read yours and gain courage through it.

Congratulations and well done!

Karin Hoppe Holloway - Therapist, United Kingdom

Dear Mary,

I now have my "Awakening" book at hand here at the "abode!"  The entire chapter of Tracey Taylor's experiences, etc. is the most awesome as it is nearly everything I have remembered/taught on a cosmic level!!!   Interestingly on page 120, "Horus" resonates as I recently had an "event" or "experience" involving a kind of alter found by archeologists, it had a thick layer of gold and was very intricately carved.  It was about 12' high.  In the center of the last two feet was a circular piece.  There were students in Egyptian costumes trying to organize some kind of play around this artifact to bring money in to further their archeologic program.  I was drawn into the theater, sat down in about the 10th row.  A male figure suddenly materialized behind me.  I was drawn to the circular object of this artifact.  It began to emit a beam of light that struck me very hard, the being behind me steadied me and accompanied me as I literally floated towards the eye.  The power was amazing--no, more like being sucked in by one of those gigantic wind tunnel machines!  The students all left when this started.  A woman came in dressed in a rather dirty robe and escorted me to the Catholic church across the street where the power within tore apart the alter of the church in a rage at religious ideologies.  All during this event/dream I had only one thought in my mind, the power of this artifact, yes, but more importantly the words "Eye of Horus" came out of my lips...and it was this Eye of Horus who had been searching for someone to take this ancient power to new use.

I want to quote from page 123, "As individual beings, we are made up of infinite geometrical encoding and harmonic frequencies, which exist universally, ultimately linking all life and consciousness together."

I was also intrigued with the same impression/connections with the Mantis beings.  My dear Mantis friend and mentor Oglbe was exactly as she described!!

And lastly, Page 114:  I also received information about the raising of human consciousness and of a dimensional shift that is presently happening on earth.  it is going to assist us and enable us to access 'other realms' more freely, as well as increase our spiritual understanding."

THIS LAST PARAGRAPH IS PROBABLY THE MOST PROMINET MESSAGE that stands as the most important aspect for those awakening to realize!!

Much love to everyone who rises up to understand this last paragraph for this is what it is all about...the spaceships are like cars driving down a highway.  Nothing compared to the reality of those within!

Lori Cordini

Dear Mrs. Rodwell,

I read your very interesting book,"Awakenening,"which I bought directly from your hands at a stand in the auditorium of Leeds University this past September.  We had a lovely chatter and I'm sorry now that it was not longer.  In fact, you impressed me as a dedicated individual and very delightful at the same time.  

Why am I writing you this letter? There was one particular chapter in your book that attracted my attention greatly.  It was on Tracy Storey and her personal abduction story is the reason why I'm writing you now. Her story fascinated me so much, simply because she was actually reciting a dialogue on Prehistory, and she even quoted "Horus" who was actually the son of Enki, his father, the Chief Scientist of the Anunnaki race and his mother, Isis, Medical Officer. According to Sitchin's 12th Planet these two individuals were instrumental in creating the first ten individuals (5 females and 5 males) on Earth that was gradually spread over our planet  .I presumed you have read his book.  I've attended two of his seminars that he held these recent years, the last one was held at Dallas, Texas this past October.

Let me go back to his creation story.   It seems after getting no satisfactory result splicing animal and homo-erectus genees, both Enki and Ningursag (Sumerian names) merged their Anunnaki genes (name of their race) with that of homo-- erectus and produced us, homo sapiens, a genetically bicameral species. They were used as slaves to work in the mines.  Initially, we were a hybrid and and could not procreate, but the demand for us became greater and then were genetically engineered to reproduce and have children.  Sitchin tells it all in detail in his book.   By the way, he's written 10 books since 1976.

Now the real purpose of this letter is to find out how Tracey could write a factual passage way beyond her conscious understanding.Incredible, to say the least.  On page 113, I like to quote what she said: "To my astonishment, this information was also contrary to everything I had been taught regarding human evolution.   It said that the human race had been created by Extraterrestrials.  The writing also contained information about the genetic manipulation of human and ET-DNA, used to create other species."End of quote.  She later repeated the experiences about a Contact that was written by a social worker, who also had her ET contact experiences.   Many of these experiences echoed her own.  And from that time on she met you and other contactees to discuss and interpret symbols and sacred geometry. Some of them said they existed in ancient temples and in pyramids around the world, many related to star systems, such as Sirius and the Constellation Orion.  This is all true (100%), Mary.   I was flabbergasted!   It's hard to believe, but it cannot be denied. Yet, numerous psychics have also had similar experiences of ET beings from Sirius.

My reason for writing you, Mary, is there a possibility of my communicating with this young lady on another matter related to my recent readings and research of the subterranean world.   If it is at all possible, we could do it either E-mail or just the regular mail.   When the last great global catastrophe occured, it was in 9,792BC.   Before that time there were prophecies stated from the Maya and Old Egyptinas that our world was to be destroyed in 2012.  I say this because I recently read an astonoshing book by two writers who are fully convinced with their research that such a calamity will exist.   If this disaster is truly going to happen, I need to substantiate it with more hard evidence.   

Tracey has been in contact with important figures (immortals) of the Anunnaki race who came to Earth thousands of years ago.   This race, according to Sitchin, are members of the 10th planet which are due to arrive in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter sometime in the early years of the next century.  Is there a lesson here for us?  If this is our history, what are we supposed to have learned to avert another great flood or better yet, a huge global disaster? Or is that too unpredictable to guess?

Perhaps Tracey can help us out by communicating telepathically with them to assist in understanding if an imminent disaster is going to happen--yes or no. There is a lot to be done for it concerns the survival of mankind, Mary.   This is an unusual request, Mary, but if you can help me with this request you'll be greatly appreciated by all who may be concerned.

Un Fuerte Abrazo,
Victor Campo

bicameral species.

From: "J Halbert" <jchalbert@comcast.net>
To: "Mary Rodwell" <starline@iinet.net.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: Awakening> Hello Mary,

Dear Mary,

I just recently finished reading Awakening. It's a marvel of insightful research, and beautifully showcases your caring, benevolent counseling. I completely agree with Dr. Leir's comment on the cover, and the book is a valued addition to my library of phenomena literature.

I especially liked: how you've categorized and very thoroughly covered questions to identify possible Contact experience - p. 34ff; summarized what we've come to know about Contact - p. 258ff; that you included samples of Jane's and Tracey's amazing drawings, and Rochelle's and Tracey's hieroglyphic script; your wonderfully helpful use of bullet summaries throughout, making for quick reference and ease of readability; your referencing reading material by subject matter - p.295ff (about a third of these works are in my library); the fact that your Experiencer friends demonstrate that Contact is occurring with several different races; and especially how you, and the Experiencers you have come to know, have presented human/alien Contact in a truly positive and transformative light - which I most certainly believe it is.

Like you, to my knowledge, I have not had any Contact experience. Your thoughts about how you'd "...love to go to Alaska..." and "...what about me?" (p. 268) truly echoed my own deeply felt wishes... And, like you, I've been asking myself, "why I chose to be so passionate about a subject that I had no personal experience of..." But while the desire (for Contact) is there, the 'need' (to have Contact as a way to make the phenomena more credible), however, is not... So many of the various parts of the "ET elephant" have been confirmed and corroborated for me by countless others...

Two of my close friends are Experiencers and I plan to share your book with them. Thanks again for all you are doing!

Love and blessings,
Joan Halbert

Dear Mary,

I was sent a review copy of your book by Beyond Publications. It has become one of my 'bibles' for witness support literature. At the moment, it's actually 'the' bible because of it's unique focus on how to help oneself and other experiencers.

I find myself agreeing with much of what you write, e.g. the stages of coming to terms with 'abduction' experientially, how that affects one's world-view etc. The choices that are to be made, the difficulties, and the positives.


Best wishes,
James Basil

Dear Mary,

My name is danny. I've only recently finished reading your book Awakening.  For me, it was an incredible book which gave me a lot of insight on how all these people, who have had contact, must have felt before they met you.  Its a subject that I've been taken by the last 6 years or so.  Its good to know that there are people like you who help people with contact experiences.

Well, just wanted to say a few words, thanks as your book has helped me also.

Danny.